1918] NOTES. 199 



General may prescribe, students pursuing a course of agriculture, in tlie senior 

 year, in land-grant agricultural colleges, whose class standing places them in 

 the upper third of the senior class as determined by the school authorities, may 

 enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Quartermaster's Department, and 

 thereafter, upon presentation by the registrant to his local board of a certificate 

 of such enlistment, such certificate shall be filed with the questionnaire and the 

 registrant shall be placed in Class 5 on the ground that he is in the military 

 service of the United States." 



Progress in Agricultural Instruction in Latin America. — A recent executive 

 decree in Colombia provides for the establishment of a tropical agricultural 

 station annexed to the national institute of agronomy in the municipality of 

 San Lorenzo, Department of Tolima. General instruction is expected to be 

 given in various branches of agriculture and allied sciences, including veteri- 

 nary science, and courses will also be arranged for students who desire to 

 specialize along certain lines. Particular attention will be paid to 'teaching 

 students how to distinguish beneficial from injurious insects met with in prac- 

 tical agriculture. The government of the department of Antioquia has taken 

 preliminary steps to establish a laboratory for the manufacture of vaccine to 

 be used by stockmen in the prevention of murrain and similar diseases of 

 cattle. A recent executive decree places the national meteorological service, 

 established in 1917, under the department of public instruction. 



The school of agricultural mechanics at Bahia Blanca, Argentina, which 

 admits pupils of not less than 17 years of age, had an attendance of 32 in 1916. 

 The shops of the school have been equipped with new machinery. 



A Brazilian forestry service has been authorized, to be under the direction of 

 the department of agriculture and to have for its object the conservation and 

 improvement of forests and the regulation of all matters pertaining to them. 



The department of agriculture of the Dominican Republic has provided a 

 traveling agricultural instructor to recommend measures for obtaining more 

 abundant yields of staple crops. An agricultural school under the direction of 

 Dr. Emil Jeannot was recently organized at Charpentier, Haiti. 



An agricultural experiment station of the coeducational schools of Amatitlan, 

 Guatemala, recently began operations, the equipment having been donated by a 

 philanthropic citizen of the community. 



In Mexico a school of agriculture was opened in Hermoslllo, the capital of 

 the State of Sonora, in March, 1917, under the direction of the governor of that 

 commonwealth. In the same month a national forestry school was inaugurated 

 at Coyoacan, a suburb of the City of Mexico. The agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions in the States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Oaxaca, and Tabasco, 

 have been supplied with modern machinery and appliances, as well as improved 

 seeds, and instruction by experts will be given to farmers in these states. A 

 publication entitled Revista agricola has been founded in the national capital. 



An agricultural school has been established in the Department of Leon, 

 Nicaragua, with Manuel Godoy as president. The government has also formu- 

 lated a plan for a course of instruction in the new national school of agricul- 

 ture, according to which there will be a section for the instruction of laborers 

 or farm hands, a section for agriculturalists or farmers, and a section for 

 agronomists or agricultural engineers. The governor of each povince is to select 

 by competitive contests two boys, who have passed the fourth grade of primary 

 instruction and are over 13 years of age, for entrance into this school at the 

 expense of the State. A school for boys not over 16 years of age, who have 

 studied agronomy for at least a year, was opened recently at Chinandega City, 

 with an appropriation of $5,000 for its installation. It is equipped with up-to- 

 date machinery and implements necessary for the proper cultivation of cereals 



