728 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Handicraft Schools of Hartford. — The announcement of the courses of the school of 

 horticulture at Hartford, Conn., for the present season shows three different courses 

 in gardening, one extending from January 14 to October 1, another of 30 lessons 

 arranged for teachers, and a third of 20 lessons; a course of 20 lessons in floriculture 

 and gardening, and others in botany and nature, hot beds and plant culture, fruit 

 culture and grafting, and soils and plant food. Most of the courses include practical 

 work and demonstrations. Junior courses, including children's school garden courses, 

 are also offered. H. D. Hemenway continues in charge of the school as director. 



Nova Scotia College of Agriculture. — This college was formally opened on February 

 7 with an enrollment of over 50 students. The work this winter will consist wholly of 

 short courses in animal husbandry, agronomy, horticulture, dairying, and poultry 

 raising. The faculty of the college consists of Melville Cumming, principal; F. C. 

 Sears, director of horticulture; F. L. Fuller, manager of the Provincial Farm, and Joseph 

 Landry, in charge of the poultry department. The staff was assisted in the short- 

 course work by specialists from the agricultural department at Ottawa and the col- 

 lege at Guelph. The college is located on the Provincial Farm at Truro, Nova 

 Scotia. A brief description of its establishment and of the new agricultural building 

 just completed was j^iven some tine since (E. S. R., 15, p. 5.30). The regular courses 

 of the college will begin next September. 



Grants for Agricultural Education in Great Britain. — The grants made by the 

 board of agriculture and fisheries in aid of agricultural education in the year 1903-4 

 amounted to §44,620. This amount was distributed among 16 different institutions, 

 including the principal agricultural colleges in England and "Wales, as well as several 

 agricultural and dairy schools, and the National Fruit and Cider Institute. Special 

 grants, amounting to §3,152, were also made for experiment and research. The 

 attendance on courses of longer or shorter duration amounted to considerably over 

 one thousand. 



Hollesley Colonial College for the Unemployed. — A note in Mark Lane Express states 

 that a committee of the London Unemployed Fund has completed the purchased" the old 

 Colonial College estate at Hollesley Bay, Suffolk, and placed it at the disposal of the 

 central committee lor three years. This estate covers 1 ,300 acres, and was laid out some 

 years ago as a training ground for young men who wished to prepare themselves for 

 farming in the colonies. There are buildings capable of accommodating 750 men, 

 besides a complete range of well-equipped farm buildings, a residence for the super- 

 intendent, and 23 cottages. The estate is supplied with all kinds of live stock, and 

 the appliances generally are all modern in character and in good order. The central 

 committee will take possession of the estate at once. 



The Home Correspondence School. — The Home Correspondence School of Springfield, 

 Mass., which was formerly conducted by The King-Richardson Company, has 

 recently been incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts as a separate institution. 

 The president is Dr. Lewis McLouth, formerly president of the South Dakota Agri- 

 cultural College, and associated with him on the faculty, among others, are Dr. W. P. 

 Brooks, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, agriculture; Prof. John Craig, of 

 Cornell University, horticulture and botany; Dr. H. W. Conn, of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, bacteriology and human physiology; Robert S. Northrop, of the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College, assistant in horticulture and botany, and Sidney B. Haskell, of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, assistant in agriculture. 



French Agricultural Budget. — The budget of the French Ministry of Agriculture for 

 the year 1905, as revised by the budget commission, amounts to approximately 

 $8,510,000. The items are as follows: Salaries and expenses of the central adminis- 

 tration and miscellaneous expenses, $294,400; assistance to agriculturists for losses 

 from hail, fire, floods, etc., $300,700; subventions to mutual insurance societies, 

 §174,600; agricultural and horticultural education, §752,250; miscellaneous subven- 

 tions, prizes, rewards, etc., §408,350; bounties for silkworm culture and cultivation 



