NOTES. 411 



leading spirit. Thomas E. Will, formerly president of the Kansas College, is professor 

 of social science in the same institution. 



The annual report of the board of agriculture of Great Britain for 1901-2, just 

 received, shows that the total amount of grants by the board for agricultural educa- 

 tion and research was £7,950 (about $38,700). The report indicates that the board 

 of agriculture is being brought into closer touch with the educational work in charge 

 of the county councils. These councils are "evincing an increasing desire to avail 

 themselves of the assistance of the board, in its advisory capacity, in the development 

 of their educational schemes so far as these bear upon agriculture or rural science." 

 The need of such central coordinating influence has been quite apparent. Most of the 

 county councils have now settled down to elaborate the details of the educational 

 schemes which they have initiated. The board has also been associated with the board 

 of educatioQ in the preparation of 8yllal)i for use in rural schools and classes. Continu- 

 ing the policy of the board to establish and develop collegiate centers, a movement is 

 on foot to secure such an agricultural collegiate center for the southwest of England, 

 although it has not yet taken definite form. The expansion of systematic horticultural 

 instruction by the various collegiate centers is mentioned as a prominent feature of 

 the work. This appears to be largely extension work in the form of lectures and 

 demonstrations, visits to gardens, and the furnishing of advice. In the counties of 

 Cumberland and Northumberland fruit stations have also been established which are 

 thought to promise much success. During the year a fine group of educational build- 

 ings was comijleted at the Yorkshire farm of Garforth, and very extensive additions 

 were made to the class rooms, laboratories, and dormitories of the Southeastern Agri- 

 cultural College at Wye. It is mentioned that in both cases these additional facilities 

 were the result of a demand rather than an anticipated growth. The college at Wye 

 has been formally affiliated with the University of London. 



Science states that in consequence of the removal of Prof. D. A. Gilchrist, the head 

 of the agricultural department at Reading College, to a similar position at Durham 

 College, Newcastle, the department has been reorganized, and the following appoint- 

 ments made: To l)e lecturer in agricultural botany and director of the agricultural 

 department, John Percival, vice principal of the Southeastern Agricultural College 

 at Wye; to be lecturer in the practice (jf agriculture, J. O. Peet; to be lecturer in 

 dairy farming and dairy bacteriology, C. W. Walker-Tisdale; to be director of the 

 horticultural department, Frederick Keeble, lecturer in botany at University Col- 

 lege, Reading; to be lecturer in horticulture and keeper of the gardens, William H. 

 Patterson. 



The report of the Nova Scotia School for Horticulture for the year 1901 has just 

 been received. This school is located at Wolfville, and is in charge of Prof. F. C. 

 Sears, formerly connected with the Kansas and Utah stations. The year is reported 

 as in many respects the most successful in the history of the institution. The total 

 attendance of the school was 68 students, 58 of whom were from Nova Scotia, 7 from 

 New Brunswick, and 3 from Prince Edward Island. The school year opens Novem- 

 ber 1 and closes May 1, and the course covers two years. The work of the school 

 has been encouraged through the passage by the provincial legislature of ' ' an act to 

 encourage horticulture," appropriating $1,000 a year for the establishment in each 

 county of one or more model orchards, with an experimental plat in connection with 

 the School of Horticulture. The execution of this act is in the hands of the provin- 

 cial secretary of agriculture and the director of the School of Horticulture. Two of 

 the model orchards were established during the year, and the experimental plat at 

 the school was started. "The plan for the model orchards is to make them as far as 

 possible what their name implies, models that may be followed with profit by all 

 growers in the sections where they are established. To this end the most up-to-date 

 methods will be followed in caring for the land, fertilizing, spraying, and pruning. 



11547— No. 4—02 8 



