100 EXPERIMENT STATION" RECOED. 



Lave agreed to appoint an agricultural instructor, and the Stonewall High 

 School began instruction last year. The government is to pay one-half the 

 salaries and otherwise assist in making the course successful. Regular short 

 courses are to be scheduled from November 1 to April 1, covering work as 

 nearly as possible in line with work done in the first two years of an agricultural 

 college course. Experimental or demonstration work will also be carried on by 

 students on their own farms under the supervision of the instructor. 



Progress in Agricultural Education in Brazil. — A large number of candidates 

 have this year presented themselves for matriculation at the agricultural col- 

 leges and apprentice schools. The intermediate or theoretical-practical school 

 at Bahia, with which an apprentice school is connected, now has an attendance 

 of 56 pupils, and a similar school attached to the federal stud farm at Pin- 

 heiro has been opened with an enrollment of 35 students for the first year's 

 course. 



Additional appi'entice schools have been established at Tubarao, on ground 

 given by the State of Santa Catharina ; at Satuba. in the former agronomic sta- 

 tion and stud farm at Santa Luzia de Norte, given by the State of Alagoas; at 

 Igarape, on the former Augusto Montenegro Experimental Farm, given by the 

 State of Para ; and at Guimaraes, in Maranhao. Measures are also being taken 

 for the installation of an apprentice school at Sao Simao, in the State of Sao 

 Paulo. Technical agricultural instruction is given by traveling professors and 

 instructors apportioned to different zones in accordance with their respective 

 productions. 



Two permanent dairy schools have been opened, one at Sao Joao del Rey, 

 and the other at Barbacena, and the government is considering the establish- 

 ment of a school of horticulture in some suitable locality. A bill authorizing 

 the establishment of schools of practical plowing and stations for the experi- 

 mental culture of tobacco, cotton, and cereals at Angatuba. Porto Feliz, Capao 

 Bonito do Paranapanema, Guarehy, and Sarapuhy was approved December 17, 

 1912. 



New Schools of the Royal Imperial Horticultural Society of Vienna. — The 

 Oester-reichiscJie Garfen-Zeitung announces that this society has extended the 

 winter course of the horticultural school at Vienna to a 2-year course, and has 

 opened professional horticultural continuation schools at Modling, Kagran, 

 Simmering, and Klosterneuburg. 



Tenth International Veterinary Congress. — This congress is to be held in 

 London, August 3 to 8. 1914, and will be organized into five sections, as follows : 

 Section 1, veterinary science in relation to public health; section 2, pathology 

 and bacteriology ; section 3, epizootiology ; section 4, veterinary medicine and 

 surgery ; and section 5, tropical diseases. The subjects to be discussed at the 

 general meetings are, (1) foot-and-mouth disease, (2) tuberculosis, (3) epizootic 

 abortion, and (4) public control of the production, distribution, and sale of 

 milk. 



Dr. L. Van Es, of the North Dakota College and Station, has been designated 

 chairman of the national committee for the United States to assist in the 

 organization of the congress, with Dr. Adolph Eichhorn, of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry of this Department, as secretary. 



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