100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



and Seed Corn for Planthii;, Cave of the Dniry Ilord. Improvenient of the Cot- 

 ton I'lant, IIow to Extend the Knral School Term. Ilarvestnii? Corn and (Cotton, 

 How to Keep Boys on the Farm, Keeping the Farm Neat and Attractive. 

 Ponltry Kaisinj;, Insects Injnrious to Farm Crojis. etc. 



Agricultural Education. — The Iowa State Fair and Exposition ofifered prizes 

 amountins? to Jj^CtOO to the boys and .irirls of Iowa taking; part in contests at the 

 fair Angust 22. The boys competed for first, second, and third i)rizes of $2(M», 

 $100. and $25. respectively, in a corn-jndgin.i: contest, and the .sirls for prizes 

 of $100, .$,"»(), and $2.j for preparing food products and giving reasons for their 

 methods of work. 



I'rof. W. C. Palmer, who has been at the head of the department of agri- 

 culture of the Winona Agricultural Institute, Winona Lake. Ind.. has been 

 made dean. He is enlarging the work of the Institute by the addition of new 

 courses and new members to the faculty. The practical 2-year course is being 

 improved, and an advanced 4-year course leading to a degree and a normal 

 course have been added. The courses are modeled after that of the Minnesota 

 School of Agriculture. 



According to Journal (VAgriculture Tropiculc of April 30, 1908. there has been 

 established at Havre, France, by a number of merchants and members of the 

 cotton association of that city a Practical Colonial School, which is designed 

 as a training school for artisans and others in the agricultural, industrial, and 

 commercial exploitation of the French colonies. Lecturers have been chosen 

 from among siiecialists in colonial affairs who will give instruction in different 

 cultures, particularly tliat of cotton, and in colonial hygiene and other aft'airs 

 pertaining to tropical countries. It is expected that about three years will be 

 required for the proper coordination of the different departments of the institu- 

 tion. At present it consists of a collection of cotton ginning and compressing 

 machines of different types, a conference hall, a library of colonial publications, 

 and a colonial museum. 



Miscellaneous.— Dr. H. D. Hou.se, formerly of the Clemson College and Sta- 

 tion, has been appointed associate director in the Biltmore Forest School. 



H. H. Cousins has been appointed director of agriculture and island chemist 

 in Jamaica, vice William Fawcett, resigned. 



A new fellowship, the Monro Fellowship, has been established at Cambridge, 

 to which T. B. Wood. Drapers' professor of agriculture, has been elected. 



AV. W. Rawson, prominent as seedsman, market gardener, and writer on horti- 

 cultural topics, died August 9, at Arlington, Mass., at the age of 61 years. 



H. D. Everett, superintendent of the division of forest administration of the 

 Philippine Bureau of Forestry, was murdered by natives in the island of Negros 

 during the early summer. He was 2S .vears of age, 



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