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Faville of Wisconsin. Dr. O, L. Prieu lias assnmed the duties of instructor iu 

 veterinary science in tlie university and veterinarian iu the station. H, T. 

 Nowell has resigned as irrigation engineer and has been succeeded by J. C. 

 Fitterer. 



Prospective Meetings of Agricultural Workers in Washington. — Arrangements 

 have been completed whereby a number of organizations of agricultural workers 

 will hold meetings in Washington in November. The Association of Othcial 

 Agrijultural Chemists will be in session from November 12-16, the Society for 

 the rromotiou of Agricultural Science on November lO, the American Association 

 of Farmers' Institute Workers ou November 16 and 17, and the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations from November 17-19. 



National Corn Exposition. — The second National Corn Exposition will be held 

 at Omaha in December. As a special feature extensive educational exhibits by 

 a number of agricultural colleges and experiment stations are contemplated, 

 these to be of such a character as to give visitors an idea of the work carried 

 ou by these institutions. 



Commission on Rural Life. — A commission has been appointed by President 

 Roosevelt to make recommendations touching the betterment of the social, 

 sanitary, and economic conditions of American farm life. Dean L. H. Bailey, 

 of Cornell Fniversity, has accepted the chairmanship of the commission, the 

 remaining members of which consist of Henry Wallace, editor of Wallace's 

 Farmer, President K. L. Butterfleld of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 (iifford Pinchot of the Forest Service of this Department, and Walter H. Page, 

 editor of World's Wurk. 



Agricultural High Schools in Oklahoma. — In accordance with the law passed 

 by the first State legislature of Oklahoma providing for the establishment and 

 mainteuauce of agricultural schools of secondary grade in each supreme court 

 district of the State, 2 schools have been established this year, one known as 

 the Murray State School of Agriculture, located at Tishomingo in Johnston 

 County and the other at Warner in Muskogee County. These State schools will 

 offer no courses of instruction other than industrial courses. Each school has 

 an appropriation for the first year of .$20,000 for buildings and $12,000 for 

 maintenance. One-fourth of the maintenance fund for each school must be 

 expended in developing agricultural experiments in the field, barn, orchard, 

 shop, and garden. The Tishomingo School has 120 acres of land and the 

 Warner School, 160 acres. 



These a*nd the other similar schools in the State will be under the supervision 

 of the State Commission of Agricultural and Industrial Education, which con- 

 sists of the State superintendent of public instruction, E. D. Cameron, the 

 president of the State Board of Agriculture, .J. P. Connors, and the president 

 of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, J. H. Connell. The Murray School 

 will open this fall and will be in session 8 months. 



Smith's Agricultural School. — Plans have been adopted for the main building 

 of this school, which is to be opened during the fall. A two-story red brick 

 structure, with limestone trimmings, 200 by 69 ft., is contemplated, compris- 

 ing offices and administration rooms, an auditorium, an arena for athletic 

 sports, physical and chemical laboratories, class rooms, etc. 



Farmers' Summer School for Negroes. — Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., held 

 from August 3 to S, a well-attended farmers' summer school especially for the 

 education of the negroes. The instruction consisted of lectures by agricultural 

 experts iu the South on the following topics: Farm Garden and Orchards. The 

 Plow—its Care and Adjustment, Fall and Winter Plowing, The Best System of 

 Itentiug Farm Lauds, Management of Farm Labor, Selection of Seed Cottou 



