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The second day of the association was devoted to numerous papers and dis- 

 cussions on plant and animal breeding. On the final day economic phases were 

 again discussed. Several papers dealing especially with small holdings were 

 presented, together with papers of more general scope by Dr. Graham Brooks 

 on the moral effects of cooperation upon the workers, and Dr. Moritz Bonn, of 

 Munich, on the status of the Irish tenant, and statistical papers by J. Wilson 

 and W. G. Adams. 



Smith's Agricultural School and Northampton School of Technology. — This 

 institution has been opened to students, and at the close of the first week the 

 enrollment was 114, of whom 30 were girls in the household economics course, 

 SO boys in the agricultural course, and 54 boys in the mechanic arts course. 

 The agricultural course for the first year includes soils and plant life, physical 

 geography, elementary science, practical arithmetic, bookkeeping, freehand 

 drawing, English, algebra, American history, civil government, and mechanical 

 work ; for the second year, animal husbandry, botany, farm chemistry, farm 

 physics, plane geometry, English, general history, and mechanical work. The 

 course in mechanic arts during the first 2 years is the same as that of the 

 agricultural course except that chemistry, mechanical drawing, and shop prac- 

 tice take the place of soils, plant life, and animal husbandry, and the household 

 economics course differs from the agricultural course only in offering sewing or 

 cookery in place of soils, plant life, and animal husbandry. Applicants for 

 admission to this school who are graduates of rural schools, or who have passed 

 the ninth grade in other schools, and are 14 years of age or older, may be 

 admitted without examination. 



Secondary School Agriculture. — The North Adams High School, North Adams, 

 Mich., has added an agricultural course to its curriculum, in charge of R. C. 

 Carr, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College. A nearby field is 

 available for practical and experimental work. 



A new agricultural high school has been established at Montague, Mass., 

 with J. R. Parker, a 1908 graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 as teacher of agriculture. 



Adam Phillips, a graduate of the New York State College of Agriculture, 

 has been elected principal of the Farragut School, Concord, Tenn., and will give 

 considerable attention to the development of the agricultural featui'es of instruc- 

 tion. 



Thorntown, Ind., is a village of 2,000 inhabitants, having a high-school 

 enrollment of 85 pupils. Nearly 60 per cent of these come from the surround- 

 ing farms and about 60 per cent are boys. All third-year pupils take agricul- 

 ture as a required subject, 5 hours a week for text-book work and about 2 

 I>eriods a week for laboratory work and field exercises. 



Agriculture in the Elementary Schools of England. — According to a recent 

 note in The Journal of the Board of Agriculture, instruction in rural subjects 

 in public elementary schools of England is fostered by a system of special 

 grants, and it appears from the report of the board of education for 1906-7 

 that considerable progress is being made in the teaching of gardening, fruit 

 culture, and dairy work. Gardening is taught in every English county except 

 two, and the number of schools which applied for grants in 1906-7 was over 

 900, as compared with 371 earning grants in 1903-4. The increase is almost 

 entirely confined to coimties in which a horticultural lecturer has been ap- 

 pointed, a part of whose duties it is to organize and supervise school gardening 

 and to train teachers to teach it. Fi-uit culture is coming to be one of the im- 

 portant features of school gardening, and bee keeping is sometimes associated 

 with it. 



