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Experimental and permanent plats will he established iu connection witli each 

 normal school. At the Trovincial Normal School, Regina, approximately 10 

 acres have been set aside for a iiuxlcl rural school garden. 



Agricultural Education in the West Indies. — A school of agriculture has been 

 started at Arteniisji. Cuba, where pupils fi'oni the district schools will receive 

 preparatory instruction in modern scientific farming. The ground, which has 

 been donated to the school for agricultural uses, will be aprK)rtionwl in small 

 lots to individual students and seeds and fertilizers will be furnished. The 

 department of agriculture proposes to found similar schools at different places 

 throughout the Republic. A tract of 100 acres near Camagiiey has recently been 

 purchased. 



An agricultural school for boys over 12 years of age has been established at 

 Las Mercedes plantation, near the city of San Jose. Costa Rica, with the object 

 of training practical farmers. It is under the direction of Prof. Gustavo L. 

 Michaud, an experienced Costa Rican agrononust and educator. The instruction 

 will be theoretical and practical, the latter including the use of agricultural 

 machinery, elementary cari>eutering, blacksmithing, and brick laying. 



The board of agriculture of Qnezaltenango, Guatemala, has taken steps 

 toward the establishment of an agricultural school in the vicinity of the city of 

 Quezaltenango. 



National Agricultural Institute in Colombia. — The establishment of a National 

 Institute t)f Agriculture and ^'eterinary Science, at Bogota, with an experiment 

 farm attached, and an auxiliary school of agriculture and animal husbandry to 

 be located elsewhere, was authorized in December, 1914. Besides the regular 

 4-year course the institute will offer .special normal courses in technical instr.uc- 

 tion and courses In horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and the cultivation 

 and manufacture of raw materials for textiles. One scholarship will be granted 

 by the government to each deiiartment of the Republic and 6 scholarships at 

 large will be awarded by the minister of agriculture and commerce. 



New Chinese School of Forestry. — A school of forestry has been established 

 in the X^niversity of Nanking. Three scholarships in the school have been pro- 

 vided by the forestry fund committee of Shanghai, and the Philippine Bureau of 

 Forestry has offered the services of exi)erts in arranging the cour.se of stiTdy, 

 delivering lectures, and otherwise assisting in the work of organization. 



New Journals. — The Annals of Applied Biology is being issued monthly as the 

 official organ of the Association of Economic Biologists to cover the field in 

 applied biologj- not now covered by special journals such as those dealing with 

 agricultural science, parasitology, genetics, and medical science. The initial 

 number contains the following articles: Impending Developments in Agricultural 

 Zoology, by F. W. Gamble; The Action of Bordeaux INIixture on Plants, by 

 B. T. P. Barker and C. T. Gimingham; Notes on the Green Spruce Aphis (Aphis- 

 abictina), by F. X. Theobald; Pollination in Orchards, by F. J. Chittenden; 

 Life History of Pcgomyia hyoscyami, by A. E. Cameron; Caterpillars Attacking 

 Oaks iu Richmond Park, by R. H. Deakin; A Bacterial Disease of Fruit Blos- 

 som, by B. T. P. Barker and O. Grove; and On the Preparation of Coccidie for 

 Microscopical Study, by E. E. Green. 



The United States Public Health Service has recently begun a series of jiopu- 

 lar publications on health and hygiene. These appear at intervals as Public 

 Health Report Supplements. In size and manner of presenting information 

 they are .similar to the Farmers' Bulletins of this Department, and like them 

 they are for general free distribution in the United States and are also sold 

 by the Sui>erintendent of Documents at a uniform price of five cents iier copy. 

 Each number contains a concise and popular discussion by an expert of some 



