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agriculture to meet the needs of 3 classes: (1) Owners of specialized farms 

 who desire expert advice, efficient farm mjinaKers, and a high grade of student 

 labor; (2) young men schooled in the science of agriculture who feel the need 

 of practical training in economics and the management of farms, and (3) boys 

 and young men who desire a practical training in the art of agriculture to tit 

 them to operate farms for themselves or to w<n'k as employees on specialized 

 farms. 



The I'niversity announces that the Guild aims to su[)i)lement without dupli- 

 cating the work of the agricultural colleges, by giving the practical training 

 which their limited etpiipnient and different purpose prevent them from pro- 

 viding. Its work will be done on ten farms in the immediate vicinity of Chi- 

 cago, which will give to graduates of agricultural colleges and others an oppor- 

 tunity to perform all of the operations involved in modern farming, thus doing 

 for them what some large manufacturers and railroad companies are doing 

 for college graduates in engineering. 



It is proposed to give a 3-year course of training, and to allow students who 

 render efficient service their board, room, washing, and .$1.5 a month for the 

 first year, $20 a montli for the second yesir, and $2-5 a month for tlie third year. 

 Students who complete satisfactorily the prescril)eil work will be awarded a 

 diploma and paid $200 in money. They may also supplement the practical train- 

 ing by taking courses in the social sciences and in any of the physical or bio- 

 logical sciences relating to agriculture at the T'niversity of Chicago or at any 

 other institution. 



The Guild is governed by a board of advisers consisting of the owners of the 



several farms, the president of the university, the dean of the faculty of arts, 



-literature, and science, the liead of the deiiartment of political economy, and the 



director of tlie Guild, Prof. William Hill. It is hoped eventually to develop 



it into a school of agriculture of the University. 



Agricultural Botany at Cambridge University.-^Through the generosity of the 

 Worshipful Comjiany of Drapers, which has offered to supplement its previous 

 contributions to the Department of Agriculture at Cambridge lUiiversity by 

 an additional grant until 1910 of $1,000 a year to be used for a second profes- 

 sorship, a chair of agricultural botany has been established. R. H. P.iffen 

 has been elected to the position and will continue in connection with it his in- 

 vestigations on tlie hybridization of wheat and barley. 



Assistance for Jews in Practical Agriculture. — The Jewish Agricultural and 

 Industrial Aid Society, an organization supported by the Baron de Hirsch fund 

 to aid Jewish iumiigrants to secure employment along industrial lines, has now 

 inaugurated an agricultural bureau wliich will endeavor to locate Jewish im- 

 migrants on farm lands which they can subsequently secure as homes, and to 

 interest them in the best methods of farming. In tliis connection it is proposed 

 to i)ublish a monthly agricultural journal in the Yiddish language. 



New Veterinary Schools. — According to lircfdrn^' Gazette, a veterinary scliool 

 of the rnivcrsily (tf Illinois will soon be opened at the Cliicago Union Stock 

 Yards, where a lease for 99 years has been secured of the necessary land. The 

 packing-house interests have contributed .$250,000 for buildings and ecluipment 

 for the school, and a State appropriation of .$.30,000, mad*' to the University of 

 Illinois, is to be available for maintenance. 



A veterinary school has recently been established in Washington, I). C, by 

 the trustees of George Washington T'niversity. A part of the instruction is to 

 be given in conjunction with the medical school of the miiversity, but si)ecial 

 buildings including a veterinary hosjiital, lecture and demonstration rooms, and 

 an anatomical laboratory are being fitted ui). Among the faculty are Drs. H. J. 



