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ing. Papers may be submitted in any language, but unless in French, Italian, 

 or Spanish should be accompanied by a summary in Spanish. Additional in- 

 formation may be obtained from the Royal Commissioner of Public Works at 

 Valencia, who will serve as president of the congress. 



Agricultural Appropriations in New York State. — Among the special appro- 

 priations granted by the New York legislature in 1913 were the following: (1) 

 For the establishment of a state school of agriculture and domestic science at 

 Delhi, $50,000, (2) for the purchase of lands and erection and equipment of 

 buildings for the New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island, 

 $190,000, (3) for the maintenance and improvement of buildings of the Scho- 

 harie State School of Agriculture at Cobleskill, $22,800, and (4) for the estab- 

 lishment of a course in practical agriculture at the Plattsburg State Normal 

 School, $3,500. 



The Rural Neto Yorker announces that 3 parcels of hind at Farmingdale, 

 Long Island, have been purchased as the site of the new state school of agri- 

 culture for Suffolk County at a cost of $87,000. 



State Aid for Agricultural Instruction in Tennessee. — An act of the Tennessee 

 General Assembly of 1913 increases the state school fund from 25 to 33J i)er 

 cent of the gross revenues, or by several hundred thousand dollars annually. 

 One of the purposes of this increase is to encourage the introduction of agricul- 

 ture, home economics, manual training, and kindred subjects into county ele- 

 mentary schools under adequate supervision, through supplementing the sala- 

 ries of supervisors in these subjects. For the present school year $10,000 will 

 be available for this purpose, and each supervisor may receive therefrom an 

 amount equal to one-half of the salary provided by the county, but not less 

 than $200 and not more than $500. 



The act also provides that a portion of the state high school fund may be 

 devoted to the encouragement of these subjects in county high schools. The 

 State Board of Education is authorized to apportion to the high school fund 

 of any county in which the proceeds from the high school tax do not amount to 

 $2,000 in any one year, the amount necessary to make a high school fund of 

 $2,000. but not, however, to exceed $1,500 to any one school in any one year, or 

 a total of $50,000 for all schools. Counties receiving such aid must comply 

 with the regulations of the State Board of Education with reference to pur- 

 chases, equipment, licensing of teachers, and courses of study. 



High School Visitors in Texas. — The board of regents of the University of 

 Texjis has recently made provisions for the employment of high school visitors 

 who will give special attention to the development of manual training, domestic 

 economy, and agriculture. The university now accredits all these subjects for 

 admission to the freshman class. 



Agricultural and Home Economics Instruction in the Public Schools of Porto 

 Rico. — A recent number of Porto Rico Pro<jres.s announces that a si)ecial teacher 

 in agriculture has been provided for every district in the island except San 

 Juan, and teachers of household economics in 48 towns. To provide time 

 for instruction in agriculture, manual training, home economics and other 

 sr)ecial subjects, the course of study has been rearranged. Boys in the sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth grades will have 3 periods a week for manual training 

 and 2 for agriculture, while the girls in the same grades will have cooking 

 3 times a week and sewing the other 2 days. To keep the instruction uniform 

 the Department of Education will send out a monthly bulletin outlining the 

 work in these subjects to be taken daily. 



University of Manchester. — The new laboratory for research work in agricul- 

 tural entomology was opened November 13, 1913, by Sir Sidney Olivier, per- 

 manent secretary of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. A laboratory 



