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New Agricultural School for Negroes. — An agriculturtil luid industrial school 

 for negroes has been established at Sandy Si)ring, Montgomery County, Md. 

 The purpose of the institution is to give instruction in agriculture, mechanics, 

 and household arts, and to prepare teachers to teach agriculture in the rural 

 schools. George 11. C. Williams, instructor in biology at Armstrong Manual 

 Training School, Washington. D. ('., has been selected for the principalship. 



New Buildings at Crookston School of Agriculture. — Stephens Hall, the three- 

 story dormitory recently erected at a cost of about $43,000, was dedicated Sep- 

 tember 17. The speakers included Hon. J. J. Hill, who was the orator of the day. 

 Congressman C. 11. Davis, Prof. William liobertson, of the school, P. M. liiug- 

 dahl, president of the board of control, State superintendent of public instruc- 

 tion John Olson, and Director Randall, of the Minnesota University and Station. 

 An industrial building, costing about $15,000, and containing a lecture room, 

 creamery, and blacksmith and carpenter shops, is nearing completion. 



Country Teachers' Association of Illinois. — This association was organized at a 

 meeting held at Macomb, 111., July 22 and 23. Its purpose is indicated in 

 resolutions adopted pledging the efforts of its members to increase the usefulness 

 of the country school by improving its physical and social environment, and the 

 enrichment of its course of study in such manner as will bring the child into 

 sympathetic and vital relationship with his environment, by country school 

 extension work through the different educational institutions, offices, and 

 agricultural associations, by consolidating weak country schools, by encouraging 

 more thorough preparation, larger salaries, and longer tenure of positions for 

 teachers, and by the further development in State normal schools of facilities 

 for training country school-teachers. 



The Colorado State Fair and Agricultural Education. — The Colorado State fair 

 authorities entered upon a new departure in education this year in the way of 

 offering scholarships as prizes for young people's contests. A scholarship of 

 $125 in any of the regular courses at the State Agricultural College was 

 offered to the boy under 21 years of age who did the best work in judging live 

 stock and corn, and a scholarship of $100 in any college or university in Col- 

 orado to the girl doing the best work in the preparation of certain foods and 

 in giving the reasons for the methods employed. 



Forestry Work in Massachusetts. — lender a recent act of the State legislature 

 the expenditure of $5,000 in 1908 and $10,000 annually thereafter is authorized 

 for the purchase of lands adapted to forest production. The act permits the 

 repurchase of these lands by the original owners, under certain restrictions, 

 and at any time within 10 years, at the purchase price plus interest at 4 per 

 cent and the amounts expended in improvements and maintenance. 



The control and management of these State lands are vested in the State 

 forester, who is also authorized to accept donations of land for the purpose 

 and also to expend not exceeding 20 per cent of the appropriation for the 

 distfibution of seeds and seedlings to landowners at not less than cost. It is 

 exjiected that considerable land will be acquired under this act, especially small 

 tracts, held for the control of municipal water supplies, and that these will give 

 opportunity for demonstrations in forest planting and management. 



International Congress on Tuberculosis. — The 1908 session of this Congress, 

 held in the new building of the National Museum, Washington, D. C, from 

 September 21 to October 12, was an event of extreme interest and importance 

 from both the scientific and popular standpoint. The speakers included the 

 President of the United States, Secretary Wilson of this Department and others, 

 members of the Cabinet, and a large number of scientific investigators, repre- 

 sentatives of the medical and veterinary professions, health officials, and others 



