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commission of the Southern Commercial Congress which is studying rural 

 credit systems. 



Utah College. — At the last session of the legislature, George T. Odell, of Salt 

 Lake City, and Joseph Quinney, jr., of Logan, were appointed to the board of 

 trustees, vice Mathonihah Thomas and Dr. J. A. Widtsoe. 



Washington Station. — Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, head of the division of plant pathol- 

 ogy and physiology, has been appointed director. 



Wisconsin University. — A party of about 50 public officials and other citizens 

 of Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania cities visited the university May 21 

 to 25, paying particular attention to its relations to the State, cities, and rural 

 communities through its extension work. The activities of the college of agri- 

 culture in this direction were objects of special interest. The ultimate purpose 

 of the trip was announced as the development of similar relationships In 

 Pennsylvania, in connection with the University of Pennsylvania and the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



Cereal Field Station in California. — The cereal station at Biggs, Cal., 

 (E. S. R., 28, p. 98) has been operated since June, 1912, by the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of this Department, as a field station in connection with its 

 cereal investigations. About 50 acres of land and $5,000 for buildings was 

 furnished by the Sacramento Valley Grain Growers' Association, which estab- 

 lished the station. The land is being partly dry farmed and partly under 

 irrigation, the irrigated portion being devoted largely to experiments with rice. 



New York State Advisory Board on Agricultural Education and Country Life 

 Advancement. — This board was authorized by the New York Legislature of 1911, 

 and is composed of 12 persons, viz, the commissioner of education, commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, director of the New York State College of Agriculture, 

 director of the New York State Station, director or dean of the state schools 

 of agriculture at Alfred, Canton, and Morrisville, a member of the State Fair 

 Commission, and the remaining members appointed by the governor. The board 

 reports annually to the governor its views and recommendations upon agri- 

 cultui"a] education and the advancement of interest in country life. The mem- 

 bers of the board receive no compensation, but $1,000 was appropriated for the 

 fiscal year beginning October 1, 1912, for other expenses. 



State Aid for High Schools in Nebraska. — The new school laws, enacted by 

 the last legislature of Nebraska, provide that any high school accredited to the 

 state university and fitted to give training in agriculture, manual training, and 

 home economics, may receive state aid not exceeding $1,250 a year. The school 

 must maintain at least two years of high school work in these subjects, employ 

 at least two teachers, and provide an approved course in normal training for 

 preparing teachers for rural schools. 



Any rural school district which gives instruction in agriculture, manual train- 

 ing, and home economics in accordance with rules and regulations of the state 

 superintendent of public instruction, and becomes associated with an accredited 

 high school may receive as state aid $50 a year. 



Agriculture in the Common Schools of Ohio. — It is stated in the National 

 Stockman and Farmer, by one of the agricultural supervisors of Ohio, that 

 after a year and a half of the Cahill Law requiring agriculture to be taught in 

 the common schools of that State, more than 900 high schools are teaching agri- 

 culture, and more than a half million boys and girls are studying the subject 

 in the public schools. It is estimated that about 4,000 teachers took work in 

 agriculture at the summer .schools last session. 



Agriculture in Secondary Schools in Manitoba. — The Manitoba Provincial 

 Department of Education is endeavoring to introduce agricultural teaching into 

 the secondary schools of the Province. As a result of its efforts, two townships 



