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South Dakota College. — A school of agriculturo has been established iu cou- 

 ueetiou with the college and will be opened the first Monday in November. The 

 course will extend over three years of five months each, and is intended to pre- 

 pare young men for life on the farm. Dr. A. A. Brighani, formerly of the Rhode 

 Island College and Station and more recently connected with the Columbia 

 School of Poultry Culture. Waterville, X. Y., has been elected principal of the 

 school, and Miss .Ii'ssic M. Ilodver, preceptress. 



Tennessee University and Station. — Morrill Hall, the new agricultural build- 

 ing, was dedicated May 28, the speakers including the State superintendent of 

 public instruction, the State commissioner of agriculture, and others. Tne 

 dedicatory address was by Dean Davenport, of the Illinois University and 

 Station. In connection with the exercises a three-day farmers' convention was 

 held at which the various agricultural organizations of the State were repre- 

 sented. Several sessions were devoted to topics pertaining to agricultural 

 educatiou, in which the East Tennessee Educational Association cooperated. 



The station has under cultivation a 20-acre experimental tract at the State 

 fair grounds. The plats are so arranged as to be as instructive as possible 

 at the date of holding the fair and will be used for demonstration work at that 

 time. 



Utah College and Station. — Walton Kirk Brainerd, at present instructor in 

 dairying and animal husbandry in the West Virginia University, has been 

 appointed professor of dairy husbandry in the college and dairyman in the 

 station, and will enter upon his duties July 1. 



Vermont University and Station. — R. M. Washburn, at one time acting pro- 

 fessor of dairy husbandry at the University of Missouri and at present dairy 

 commissioner of that State, has been appointed professor of dairy husbandry 

 and dairy husbandman, vice C. L. Beach, whose resignation has been previously 

 noted. 



"Wyoming University. — Dr. Charles Oliver Merica was elected president May 

 9 and entered upon the duties of the office at once. 



Agricultural work in Manchuria. — E. C. Parker, assistant agriculturist iu the 

 Minnesota University and Station, and W. H. Tomhave. assistant in animal 

 husbandry in the Pennsylvania College and Station, have accepted three-year 

 commissions as expert advisers in agriculture to the Manchurian government 

 and will enter upon their duties about August 15. Among other lines of work 

 the government purposes organizing an experiment station at Mukden and 

 eventually an agricultural college in Manchuria. 



Agricultural Education in Hawaii and Porto Rico. — The Secretary of the 

 Interior has extended to Hawaii and Porto Rico the benefits of the Morrill and 

 Kelson acts, thereby making available for the fiscal year ending June .30, 190S, 

 and succeeding years, the funds provided by those acts for instruction in agri- 

 culture and the mechanic arts. In Porto Rico the legislature has supplemented 

 these appropriations by grants of .$30,OftO for the construction of buildings and 

 $10,000 for the purchase of land at Mayaguez, wliere it is planned to locate a 

 college of agriculture and mechanic arts as a department of the University of 

 Porto Rico. The legislature also granted $3,000 to the Institnto de Agricultura 

 Artes y Oficios of Lajas for repairs and maintenance, and extended until June 

 30, 1910, the time for the establishment of the agricultural institutes provided 

 for by the act of 1907. 



Change in Scope of the Bussey Institution. — The Bussey Institution established 

 at Jamaica I'iain, Mass., in IsTO, in accordance with the will of Benjamin 

 Bussey. as a school of agriculture and horticulture of Harvard University, is to 

 be closed as an undergraduate institution ut the end of the present academic 



