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and Station. W. B. Richards has been appointed assistant in animal hnsbandrv. Dr. 

 A. S. Alexander, lecturer in the Chicago Veterinary College, has been appointed 

 instructor in veterinary science and will also give lectures and demonstrations on 

 the horse. The last legislature appropriated $25,000 for furnishing and eipiipping 

 the new agricultural building and §15,000 for a farm engineering Ijuilding. It also 

 gave $10,000 for the purchase of improved live stock, $10,000 for the purchase of 

 additional farm lands, $1,500 annually for 2 years for tobacco investigations, and 

 $2,500 auiuially for 2 years for cranberry investigations. 



Wyoming University and Station. — E. E. Smiley, president of the university, has 

 resigned, the resignation to take effect September 1. Wilbur C. Knight, professor 

 of geology and mining engineering in the university and geologist of the station, 

 died July 28. The State board of charities has turned over to the university and 

 station the penitentiary buildings and farm in Laramie, the last of the prisoners 

 having been transferred to the new penitentiary at Rawlins. The Ijuildings con- 

 nected with the i:>enitentiary belonging to former contractors were purchased for 

 the station from State funds. There is thus added to the college and station 

 equipment a farm of 320 acres, situated on the Laramie River, where an a1»un- 

 dance of good water is at hand, and buildings which cost originally approximately 

 $100,000. The final purchase of the old experiment station farm, consisting of 120 

 acres, has been authorized. The station is to take up work with live stock, and it is 

 expected that some breeding stock of cattle, horses, and swine will be added during 

 the year. It alreaily has the promise of a few brood mares with which to begin its 

 work in horse breeding. 



Convention of Farmers' Institute Workers. — The eighth annual meeting of tlie Amer- 

 ican Association of Farmers' In.^titute Workers was held in the Parliament Buildings, 

 Toronto, Canada, June 23-26. Seventeen of the States of the Union and four of the 

 Provinces of the Dominion of Canada were represented by their institute officials. 



The association was welcomed to Canada by the Honorable G. W. Ross, Premier 

 of Ontario, who spoke of the remarkable progress which agriculture had made in 

 recent years, both in the United States and in the Dominion of Canada, and of the 

 friendly competition that exists between the two countries. 



The president, AV. C. Latta, in his annual address, reviewed the scope and growing 

 importance of the farmers' institute work, dealing particularly with the means of 

 making it more effective for good. Referring to the training ()f the institute worker 

 he said that this should lie special and "should include a Ijoyhood spent on the 

 farm, a common and high school education, a thorough technical training at an agri- 

 cultural college, and, after graduation, several years of experience in some line of 

 practical agriculture." The qualifications of the workers and the organization of 

 farmers' institutes was discussed at length. 



The programme included the following i:)apers, most of which were quite freely dis- 

 cu.s.«ed: Training for Institute Work; Prime Qualifications; Should the Worker have 

 Special Training? How may it be Secured? Franklin Dye, Trenton, X. J. Organi- 

 zation for Institute Work — Should it be a Permanent Organization or should we 

 work through other farmers' Organizations? L. R. Taft, Agricultural College, JNIich- 

 igan. Acc-essories in Institute Work — Demon.strations, Judging Contests, Field 

 Experiments, F. H. Rankin, Urbana, 111. How far is it Practicable to Conduct a 

 Season's Campaign in some Agricultural Interest? What Interests may be Appro- 

 priately and Successfully Advanced, such as Roads, Homes, Reforesting, Agriculture 

 in High Schools, or Agricultural Education? F. E. Dawley, Fayetteville, X. Y. How 

 to Advertise Institute ^Meetings, (leo. ]McKerrow, Madison, Wis. The Evening Ses- 

 sion — How to make it Interesting and Instructiv^: (a) The Romance of Agriculture, 

 C. C. James, Toronto, Canada; and (b) Local Help, Wesley Webb, Dover, Del. 



