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for the beginning of the college course, 89 students having been graduated 

 March 26 from the two-year courses of the provincial schools of agriculture at 

 Claresholm, Olds, and Vermilion. These were the first graduates of the com- 

 plete course from these schools. 



A movement for the organization of young women's institutes was begun in 

 Quebec in January, 1915, with the establishment of three women's clubs, known 

 as young farm women's clubs (cerclcs des jeunes fennidrcs). They differ 

 from women's institutes in dealing mainly with agricultural matters, while the 

 object of the latter is to teach domestic science. 



The department of education of British Columbia has decided to include 

 agriculture as an optional subject in the high schools. Instructors especially 

 qualified to give instruction in agriculture will be appointed in the schools, will 

 also assist in teaching some of the regular science subjects of the high school, 

 especially biology, and will also spend a part of each week supervising the 

 work in elementary agriculture and school gardening in the public schools of 

 the locality. Extension classes in agriculture will be opened for boys and young 

 women who are not regular students in the high schools. 



An agricultural instruction committee has been appointed in Saskatchewan 

 to advise on all matters pertaining to the scope and character of agricultural 

 education in the public, high, and normal schools. The committee consists of 

 the superintendent of education, the dean, director of extension work, and 

 professor of agricultural engineering of the Saskatchewan College of Agricul- 

 ture, the principals of the normal schools at Saskatoon and Regina, and the 

 deputy ministers of agriculture and education. Two directors of agricultural 

 instruction in the schools have been appointed, F. W. Bates for the northern 

 half of the Province, and A. W. Cocks for the southern half. They will be 

 closely associated with the normal schools, will follow up the work of the 

 teachers in their respective districts both in the public and high schools, and 

 will be ex-officio members of the agricultural instruction committee. 



The first short course for clergymen to be held in Canada was offered at the 

 Manitoba College this summer, with an attendance of 107. 



School of Farm Mechanics in Argentina. — On September 5, 1915, a school for 

 farm mechanics instruction was inaugurated at Rafaela in the Province of 

 Santa Fe for students at least 16 years of age, who can speak, write, and read 

 Spanish and understand mathematics up to and including elementary geometry. 

 The school, which has been recognized by the provincial government, will issue 

 diplomas and offer a 2-year course in farm mechanics, including theoretical and 

 practical instruction in general farming, agricultural machinery and imple- 

 ments, forge and carpentry work, boilers and motors, wells, electricity, design- 

 ing, agricultural hydraulics, applied mechanics, mathematics, etc. 



Necrology. — Joseph E. Wing, widely known as an agricultural writer and 

 lecturer, died September 10, 1915, at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, aged 54 years. He 

 was the author of a number of well-known books, including Sheep Farming in 

 America, Alfalfa in America, Meadows and Pastures, and In Foreign Fields. 

 In recent years he had given special prominence to the advocacy of alfalfa grow- 

 ing, the use of lime and cement, and improved farm living conditions. He was 

 also a member of the governing board of the Ohio State University. 



The death is noted of Dr. Thomas Kosutiiny at Budapest at the age of 67 years. 

 He had been director of the Hungarian Agricultural Institute for Chemistry 

 since 1903, and received the iron cross of the third class in 1907. He was the 

 author of a considerable number of scientific articles, studying among other 

 subjects the influence of pure cultures in winemaking, the chemistry and physio- 

 logical character of Hungarian tobacco, and Hungarian wheats and their value 

 for flour and breadmaking. 



