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for work in the semiarid portion of the State. It is proposed that the members 

 of the staff advise and assist farmers in that section, giving attention to demon- 

 stration work connected with the production of crops adapted thereto and other 

 problems bearing on dry-land agriculture. In order that the work of the de- 

 partment may be as closely correlated as possible with that of the station and 

 the State Bureau of Farm Development, the director of the station has been 

 made director of the department. H. E. Goldsworthy, a graduate of the college, 

 who has had considerable experience in dry-land farming in Alberta, has been 

 appointed vice-director with headquarters at Lind. 



Byron Hunter, formerly of the Office of Farm Management of this Depart- 

 ment, has been appointed vice-director of the Bureau of Farm Development, the 

 director of the station being its director. This bureau has charge of the county 

 agricultural work in the State in cooperation with this Department. 



William D. Foster, for a number of years superintendent of the college farm, 

 died January 25. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — H. E. Lothe, D. V. M., has been appointed 

 instructor in veterinary science in the college of agriculture and assistant in 

 veterinary science in the station. M. H. Crissey has been appointed assistant 

 in agricultural economics and executive secretary in the college nnd station. 



Agricultural Education in Canada. — At the request of the minister of educa- 

 tion. Queen's University, Kingston, has established the new degree of bachelor 

 of science in agriculture. The course covers four years, of which the first two 

 are to be spent in residence at the university and the remaining two at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College. In order to increase their knowledge of practical 

 agriculture, candidates for the degree will be expected to work during the 

 summer vacation between the third and fourth years of the course, either on the 

 farm of the agricultural college or on some other approved farm. At the end 

 of each of the two years taken at the agricultural college the government will 

 give a scholarship of $100 to each candidate recommended by the president of 

 the college. 



The department of education will accept the degree of B, S. Agr. as the 

 academic qualification for a specialist's certificate in both science and agricul- 

 ture and for a public school inspector's certificate. The former certificate will 

 be granted after a year's professional training at the faculty of education of 

 either Queen's University or the University of Toronto. The holder will be 

 regarded as qualified to teach both science and agriculture in a high school, 

 continuation school, or collegiate institute, and each county representative, in 

 addition to his usual duties, will conduct under the school board concerned, 

 classes for farmers and farmers' sons throughout the county. 



It is announced that as soon as the new class of specialists is available, the 

 government will also make liberal grants for maintenance and increase of teach- 

 ers' salaries for the encouragement of secondary school classes in agriculture. 

 The payments to the teachers, however, will obligate the teacher to teach at 

 least two years in the Province of Ontario. 



The new buildings of the Manitoba Agricultural College, located on a site of 

 I.ICO acres just south of Winnipeg, were sufficiently completed to permit of their 

 use in the fall of 1913. The group as a whole will cost $5,000,000 and will 

 require from 2 to 3 years additional for its completion. 



The new college of agriculture of Saskatchewan University is offering a 4-year 

 course leading to the degree of B. S. in Agr., and a 3-year course leading to the 

 certificate of Associate in Agr. The first class in agriculture, consisting of 65 

 students, entered last fall, nearly all of whom matriculated in the 3-year course. 



The Province of Alberta is undertaking a new form of instruction in Canada 

 in opening 3 schools of agriculture, viz, at Claresholm, with W. J. Stephens, 



