1098 EXPEEIMENT STATION EECORD. 



took place Juue 10, among the speakers being Dean Bailey, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, who was subsequently given the degree of LL. D. Press reports state that 

 John McLennan, of Syracuse, N. Y., an Alfred alumnus, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of agriculture and farm superintendent. 



An appropriation of ^20,000 was also granted for the establishment of an 

 agricultural school of secondary grade at Morrisville. 



The charter under which the agricultural school at St. Lawrence University 

 was established has been so amended as to restrict the instruction to elementary 

 and practical courses to be given only at the university. 



New Agricultural High School Building in New England. — A new building- for 

 the first industrial and agricultural high school in New England was dedicated 

 May 22 at Petersham, Mass. Among the speakers were Presidents Eliot of 

 Harvard, Carroll D. Wright of Clark College, and Butterfield of Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, and Secretary George H. Martin of the State board of 

 education. 



Agricultural Education in the Province of Quebec. — The annual report of the 

 Minister of Agriculture of the I'ruvince of Quebec contains reports of the work 

 during 1906-7 of the agricultural schools at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere and Oka, 

 the housekeeping schools at Roberval and St. Paschal, the Provincial Dairy 

 School at St. Hyacinthe, the Laval Veterinary School at Montreal, and of the 

 work in horticulture in the primary schools. The Agricultural School at Oka is 

 being converted into an agricultural institute to be affiliated with Laval Uni- 

 versity, and the government has considerably increased the grant to this school 

 to enable it thus to raise its teaching to a higher plane. The number of pupils 

 in primai'y schools receiving voluntary instruction in horticulture increased 

 fi-om 425 in 1906 to 1.258 in 1907. 



Agricultural Instruction Abroad. — Studley College, Warwickshire, England, 

 has added to its curriculum a housewife's course, which may be taken either 

 separately or in conjunction with dairying and poultry keeping, which go to 

 make up the colonial training course. The instruction leads to a certificate and 

 will include training during three terms in cooking, laundering, and house- 

 work, together with lectures on sick nursing, first aid, theory of education, and 

 household management. 



A recent number of La Semainc Agricole contains a description of the work of 

 an organization founded by Julieu Ray, of the University of Lyon, France, for 

 the purpose of providing instruction in agriculture for soldiers and farmers at 

 the garrison in Lyon. In each regiment one lecture a week is delivered by a 

 specialist, who speaks on some phase of one of the following topics : The human 

 body, the soil, the plant, and economic methods of culture. There are also lec- 

 tures for mechanics. This work was started in 1904, and in the main those 

 attending the lectures have manifested great interest in the work. 



lUustrierte Landwirtschaftl ich c Zcitung of February 15 states that the Asso- 

 ciation of Rural Household Economy will soon open its fourth household econ- 

 omy school at Scherpingen, near Sobbowitz, in West Prussia. The curriculum 

 will extend through one year and will include advanced courses in dairying, 

 poultry husbandry, and horticulture. Of the three other schools, located at 

 Reifeustein, Obernkirchen, and Maidburg, those at Obernkirchen and Maidburg 

 give training courses to pupils desiring to become teachers of household econ- 

 omy, and that at Maidburg also offers a course in farm management and 

 advanced courses similar to those contemplated at Scherpingen. 



A recent issue of Die Gartenicelt gives a brief description of the horticul- 

 tural winter school opened at Elmshorn in 1907 under the direction of Dr. 

 Ludwig Rabe. The school was founded by the Association of Commercial Hor- 



