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University, including detailed provisions regarding the handling and accounting 

 of state appropriations, although no appropriation has as yet been provided. 



Federal Aid for the Promotion of Agriculture in Canada. — The government of 

 Canada has appropriated $10,000,000 to cover a period of 10 years beginning 

 with the year ending March 31. 1914, for instruction and research in agriculture. 

 This fund is to be distributed among the provinces according to population. 

 The sum of $700,000 will be allotted the first year and this amount will be in- 

 creased by $100,000 annually until 1917, from which year until 1923 $1,100,000 

 will be provided annually. 



The work of the federal department of agriculture is to be aided by assisting 

 and developing the live stock, dairying, fruit growing, and other industries along 

 lines of investigation, research, improvement in transportation, markets, etc. 

 The assistance to be given to agricultural education will include the increasing 

 of the facilities and equipment of the agricultural colleges, the establishment 

 of agricultural, dairy, and horticultural schools and short courses, the introduc- 

 tion of agricultural teaching into the public schools, and agricultural extension 

 work. The sum of $20,000 a year is to be divided between such veterinary col- 

 leges as grant degrees and come up to a required standard, and in addition to 

 this the sum of $20,000 annually is to be allotted to each province regardless of 

 population. Federal supervision over the exiienditures by the provinces is 

 provided, and there will be federal inspection of the work done, with a detailed 

 annual report to Parliament. 



Agricultural Progress in Latin America. — The department of agriculture of 

 Argentina has established an experiment station at Tucuman for the culti- 

 vation of Paraguayan tea plants, the work being under the immediate direction 

 of E. Liniholmberg and Dr. Julio Lopez. The first shipment of 2,000 plants 

 recently arrived. The regional agricultural engineer has established the follow- 

 ing cooperative experimental farms in the Province of San Juan : AtChimbas, in 

 charge of Juevenal de Oro ; at Concepcion, Dr. Pedro Manrique ; at Alto de 

 Sierra, R. Wilkinson; at Angaco Norte, Dr. Daniel Aubone; at Santa Lucia, 

 Salvador Ramirez ; at Caucete, Ricardo Alvarez ; and at 25 de Mayo, Ramon 

 Echegaray. 



The agricultural normal school at Santiago, Chile, is being reorganized and 

 its activities devoted entirely to agricultural subjects under rules and regula- 

 tions to be issued by executive authority. The agricultural schools at Chilian, 

 Concepcion, and Cauquenes are also to be reorganized, and $10,950 has been 

 appropriated for each of two agricultural schools to be established at Aconcagua 

 and Rancagua, respectively. An agricultural congress, an exposition of agri- 

 cultural machinery, and a stock show are to be held in Concepcion during the 

 latter part of October, 1913. 



The government of Colombia has accepted eight scholarships, including four 

 in the school of agriculture and one in the veterinary school of the University 

 of Santiago, offered to Colombian students by the government of Chile. 



The annual fair held in Guatemala from January 29 to February 2 was 

 largely attended and fine exhibits of stock, agricultural products, fruits, 

 vegetables, poultry, farm machinery, etc., were made. The school of agriculture 

 of the Republic of Guatemala at Guatemala City, which was founded January 

 13, has admitted to its first year's class the first-year pupils of the Central 

 Normal School for Males, thereby largely inci'easing the number of students 

 taking the agritmltural course. 



The Haitian government has made an appropriation for the establishment 

 of an agricultural school and negotiations are under way to engage professors 

 from abroad to give instruction in the latest scientific agricultural methods. 



