200 EXPEEIMENT STATION EECOED. 



these training-schools or training-classes were to utilize actual farmers' farms 

 for a part of their work the results, of course, would be much better. A vaca- 

 rion in the country is not farm work. Living in a country home is not farm 

 work. One must actually do the work seriously and as good farmers do it. 

 There should be some way of linking-up many of the best farms with the 

 training-school idea, the educational features to be under the direction of the 

 recognized educational authorities of the State." 



Long Island Farm School. — It is stated in the Tribune Farmer that the 

 Long Island agricultural school appropriation bill passed by the last session of 

 the legislature provides for an appropriation of .$90,000 for the purchase of 

 lands and $300,000 for buildings in addition to the $10,000 and $40,000 pre- 

 viously appropriated, respectively, for lands and buildings. The trustees have 

 received options on 300 acres of land about one and one-half miles from Farm- 

 ingdale, N. Y. 



Miscellaneous. — Among the appropriations of the General Education Board at 

 its recent meeting are $180,050 for agricultural demonstration work in the 

 Southern States, including boys' corn clubs, $75,000 for the promotion of girls' 

 canning and poultry clubs in the South, $14,500 for demonstration work in 

 Maine, and $7,500 for beginning similar work in New Hampshire. 



A diploma has just been awarded to Dr. C. F. Langworthy, chief of nutrition 

 investigations of this Office, for a collection of material illustrating nutrition 

 and home economics, prepared for the International Hygiene Exhibition at 

 Dresden in 1911. 



Governor Cox of Ohio has announced as members of the new state agricul- 

 tural commission A. P. Sandles, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture; 

 S. E. Strode, state dairy and food commissioner; and Dean H. C. Price, of 

 Ohio State University. 



The new wing of the laboratories of the Rothamsted Experiment Station was 

 formally opened June 27 by Hon. Walter Runciman, president of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries. 



The New York legislature has appropriated $250,000 for a building for the 

 forestry work at Syracuse University, together with $50,000 for the maintenance 

 and development of the work during the ensuing year. 



James F. Zimmer, formerly in charge of the Insecticide Testing Laboratory 

 of this Department at Vienna, Va., has accepted a position as assistant state 

 leader in farm management with headquarters at Manistee, Mich. 



Prof. Alexander G. McAdie, of the California district of the Weather Bureau 

 of this Department, has accepted an appointment as professor of meteorology 

 at Harvard University and director of the Blue Hill Observatory. 



Frederich A. Ober, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and 

 well known as an ornithologist and author, died recently at the age of 65 years. 



The position of provincial entomologist in Nova Scotia has been established 

 and W. Matheson appointed to the position. 



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