420 EXPERIMENT STATION KECURD. 



The programme for the St. Louis meeting will provide general sessions for perfecting 

 an organization-and for the discussion of topics of interest alike to animal and plant 

 breeders and biologists, and sessions of the two sections. 



Agricultural Schools and Experimental Farms in Quebec. — A royal school has been 

 incorporated under the laws of the Province of Quebec for the purpose of establishing 

 and carr3-ing on agricultural schools and experimental farms. The school is to main- 

 tain two or more schools and experimental farms in the jtrovince, one to be located 

 in the district of Montreal and one in the district of Quebec. Each school will contain 

 accommodations for at least 50 j^upils and will give a 3-years' course, tuition and board 

 being free of charge. The course will include all branches of agriculture, horticulture, 

 aboriculture, dairying, slaughtering and curing of meats, carpentering, blacksmithing, 

 and such other trades as may be useful to farmers. The school will establish experi- 

 mental farms and "farms for tuition purposes," will clear and improve land and 

 dispose of the same to its graduates and others, and will make advances to settlers to 

 enable them to take up lands. 



Primary Agricultural Schools in Saxony. — According to a recent issue of the Con- 

 sular Reports there are 12 primary agricultural schools in Saxony and 2 horticultural 

 schools. Candidates for admission to these schools must be at least 14 years of age, 

 and no one will be considered who has not completed the prescribed course at some 

 ordinary public school. The subjects taught in the primary agricultural school at 

 Meissen, for example, include German, arithmetic, surveying, general agriculture, 

 bookkeeping, writing, geometry, natural history, fruit raising, political economy, his- 

 tory, draAving, agricultural history, and stock raising. 



New Correspondence Agricultural College. — A correspondence college for agricul- 

 ture has been organized at Sioux City, Iowa, with the following professional staff: 

 Director, Carl C. Magee, Sioux City, Iowa; dean of agricultural de})artment, W. A. 

 Linklater, Sioux City, Iowa; animal husbandry, W. J. Kennedy, of Iowa College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; agronomy, P. G. Holden, of the same institution; 

 and veterinary science, A. T. Peters, of the Nebraska Experiment Station. The 

 courses of study offered include animal husbandry, agronomy, veterinary science, 

 stock feeding, stock judging, and short courses in castration, obstetrics, spaying, and 

 sanitary and preventive medicine. 



Miscellaneous. — According to a recent announcement a colonial school has been 

 established in connection with the University of Nancy, France, in which instruction 

 is given in forestry, agriculture, economics, etc., the object being to prepare students 

 for positions in the French colonies. The number of students matriculated for 1902-3 

 was 34. In connection with this school biweekly conferences are held which are 

 open to the public and have been quite largely attended. The director of the new 

 school is Edmond Gain. 



The commission appointed to inquire into the steps to be taken toward the estab- 

 lishment of a university for the Transvaal has recommended the acquisition of a site 

 within a convenient distance of Johannesburg and Pretoria, upon which shall be 

 located the teaching university, an agricultural school, and state laboratories for 

 chemistry and animal and vegetable pathology. The appointment of a principal of 

 the highest scientific attainments and ajiproved organizing capacity is urged. Mean- 

 while H. S. Hele-Shaw, professor of engineering in Liverpool University, has been 

 appointed to organize technical education in the Transvaal and the Orange Eiver 

 Colony. 



Thomas Kosutuny, director of the Chemical Experiment Station at Altenburg, 

 Hungary, has been appointed director of the Chemical Agricultural Institute and 

 Central Chemical Experiment Station at Budapest, and Josef Adorjiin has been 

 appointed head chemist in the above institute. 



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