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of PJnnt Industry of this Departineni. There will now be proviiled for this 

 work 30 or more plats properly leveed and equipped with irrigation and drain- 

 age canals. A drainage pump will be installed to be used for the double puri3ose 

 of irrigating these plats and of providing drainage for the station farm. The 

 land previously used for irrigation experiments will be devoted to a 4-year 

 rotation of cotton, corn, soy beans, and cowpeas, and to the growing of 

 miscellaneous crops. 



An organization of farmers, known as the Southwest Louisiana Agricultural 

 Society, was formed at a meeting called by the assistant director of the rice 

 substation, March 7, and now has a membership of 43. This society is to meet 

 at the substation monthly during the coming year. Some of the recent meetings 

 have been devoted to a discussion of commercial fertilizers, a study of the data 

 gatlierod by the station during the past four years, and a discussion of ways and 

 means of charbon eradication. 



Massachusetts Collegre. — The 1914 summer schools will include the summer 

 school of agriculture and country life, June 30 to July 28, the school for rural 

 social service July 15 to 28, three boys' agricultural camps of about 10 days 

 each in July, a poultry convention July 22 to 24, and the conference on rural 

 community planning July 28 to August 1. The boys' camps will be conducted 

 under military discipline, with instruction in agriculture, hygiene, citizenship, 

 etc., each forenoon, and with the afternoons and evenings devoted to organized 

 play and recreation, evening campfires, and the like. Each camp will be limited 

 to 30 boys between the ages of 12 and 17, a charge of $8 a week being made to 

 defray the cost of maintaining the camp, board, instruction, and supervision. 



The William R. Sessions fund of $5,000 has been established by the college 

 following a bequest from the former trustee of the institution. 



Bert C. Georgia, instructor in market gardening, die<l May 24. He was a 

 1913 graduate of Cornell University and was 25 years of age. 



Minnesota University. — W. H. Bender has accepted an appointment as asso- 

 ciate professor of agricultural education to take effect the latter part of the 

 summer. 



Lincoln Institute, Missouri. — This institution, which is the state agricultural 

 college of Missouri for negroes, has recently purchased a farm of CO acres about 

 a quarter of a mile from the main campus, for use in teaching agriculture and 

 kindred subjects. Three men are to devote their time to the teaching of 

 agriculture. 



New Hampshire College. — Statistics recently collected indicate that of the 

 4-year students in agriculture during the last 19 years, 70 per cent have come 

 from the farm. Of the graduates during this period, 51 per cent are now 

 engaged in practical farming and 71 per cent of these are farming in New 

 Hampshire. Twenty-five per cent are teachers of agriculture or allied subjects 

 in secondary schools and 23 per cent are in the service of agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations or of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Of the graduates from the 2-year course in agriculture, 77 per cent are now 

 engaged in practical farming. Of those who entered from New Hampshire, 84 

 per cent remain within the State. 



Cornell University. — The fourth session of the School for T>eadership in Coun- 

 try Life is announced for June 23 to July 3. 



Dr. B. T. Galloway. Assistant Secretary of this Department, has accepted 

 the position of director of the college of agriculture to take effect early in 

 August. O. A. Johannsen and M. F. Barrus have been promoted to full pro- 

 fessorships in the departments of entomology and extension work in plant 

 pathology respectively. 



