1100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Secondary Agricultural Schools in Arkansas. — An aijpropriation of $l<I(),0(to 

 lias hiHMi luado hy llii' Ai-kaiisas h'^rislatnre for four secondary a;^riculf nral 

 schools. The State is to be divided int<j four districts and the location nf tlie 

 schools will be determined by their respective f^overninj; boards. 



Pennsylvania Appropriations for Agricultural Education. — In addition 1o the 

 very large appropriations for the Pennsylvania College and Station, noted 

 elsewhere in this issue, the legislature ai)i)roi»riated $40,000 for the State 

 Forest Academy at Mount Alto and .$2.j.00() for the National Farm School at 

 Doylestown. 



Proposed Agricultural College in Saskatchewan. — It is announced that the re- 

 cently established Fniversity of Sask.-itchcwan is to be organized along lines 

 similar to the state universities of this country, and that it will include a col- 

 lege of agriculture. A site has ])een selected at Saskatoon, about 2.")0 miles north 

 of the Canadian border of Montana, where a tract of nearly 1,2(K) acres has been 

 set aside for the college farm and campus. The college is to include depart- 

 ments of animal husbandry and veterinarj' science, field husbandry and soils, 

 farm mechanics, including carpentry, blacksmithing and farm machinery, dairy- 

 ing, horticulture and tree planting, nature study, including Idology and geology, 

 chemistry, physics, mathematics, and English. There will also be an extension 

 department, which will take over the work now carried on by the agricultural 

 societies, under the direction of the superintendent of fairs and institutes. 



W. J. Rutherford, deputy commissioner of agriculture of the Province of 

 Saskatchewan, has been appointed dean of the college of agriculture, and John 

 Bracken, superintendent of fairs and institutes, as one of the pi-ofessors. The 

 organization of the college is to proceed at once under their supervision. 

 Buildings of modern tyiie are to be erected ready for occupancy in the fall of 

 IDIO. when it is i)lanned to open the in.stitution to students. 



School Gardens for the Soiith. — H. P. Stuckey, of the Georgia Station, ])egau 

 in the March numl)er of the SoKtlicrn Rurali-st, a series of articles on School 

 Gardens for the South. Among the topics so far considered are the educa- 

 tional value of the school garden, seed supplies, the kinds of work especially 

 adapted to the different seasons, and suitable laboratory exercises. 



Miscellaneous. — The recent death is noted of William H. Council, Ph. D., 

 president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes at Normal, 

 Ala., following a long period of ill health. 



Dr. Francis Watts, of Antigua. Leeward Islands, has accepted the position 

 of Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, vice Sir Daniel 

 Morris, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



The Citntcrhury A. and P. Associations Journal for April announces the 

 appointment of Robert Alexander as director of the Canterbury Agricultural 

 College, Lincoln, near Christchurch, New Zealand. 



A gift of .$100,000 has been made to Yale University by Mrs. Morris K. 

 .Tessui) to establish the Morris K. Jessup chair of agriculture in the forestry 

 scho( )1 . 



The Order of the Red Eagle, third class, has been conferred upon Prof. O. 

 Kellner, director of the Moeckern Experiment Station. 



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