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other universities and colleges in tlic State are very active. A bill introduced some 

 weeks ago appropriating $200,000 to establish a State college of agriculture at Cob- 

 leskill has I)een advocated by the opposition, and also naturally by the people in the 

 region of Cobleskill, prominent among whom was the president of Union College. 

 The chancellor of Syracuse University is reported as having taken a leading i^art in 

 this opjiosition, advocating first a division of the Federal funds among the colleges 

 of the State, and more recently the appointment of a commission. In an address 

 before the finance committee of the senate, the chancellor made grave charges against 

 Cornell University, and tliis address was published in a pamphlet cTititled "A Protest 

 and Some Other Proposals Concerning Agricultural Education," which has been 

 widely circulated, followed by a second set of charges. This agitation has called forth 

 a twenty-four page circular on Agricultural Education in New York State, by Prof. 

 L. H. Bailey, in which he answers the charges against the university, and maintains 

 that agricultural education in the State can best be provided for at the institution 

 where large provision in teaching force and equipment already exists. The Cornell 

 ]n\l has passed the assembly and early action in the senate is expected. 



TJie Cornell Countryman notes that out of 43 students in the general winter course 

 in agriculture at Cornell, 30 chose poultry husbandry for their elective course. This 

 is gratifying evidence of the interest taken by students in this new department. 



From the same source we note that at the meeting of the New York State Grange, 

 early in February, it was voted to establish four grange scholarships in the college 

 of agriculture at Cornell University, which contributes a distinctly new feature to 

 the educational movement in the State. 



The Forest School of Yale University has received, by gift of G. H. Myers, the 

 library of the late Robert Henry, of Munich, containing about 1,500 books and 

 pamplilets on forestry. 



Announcement is made that at the fifth summer session of Columbia University 

 provision will be made for instruction in foods and human nutrition. A course of 

 live lectures a week on the chemistry of food and nutrition, with collateral reading 

 and with or without laboratory work, is offered by Dr. H. C. Sherman; and Prof. 

 H . T. Vulte, of the department of domestic science, will give courses on food princi- 

 ples and on food production and manufacture. The course on food principles will 

 include sugars, starches, proteids, fats, etc., with special attention to the changes 

 taking place during domestic manipulation and digestion. The course in food pro- 

 duction and manufacture will cover such matters as the milling of cereals, composition 

 and use of leavening agents, jellies and preserves, oils and fatty bodies, and water for 

 drinking and detergent use. Courses in the theory and practice of teaching nature 

 study in elementary schools, consisting of lectures, readings, discussions, and prac- 

 tical work, and in biological nature study, including lectures, readings, and work in 

 the laboratory and the field, will be conducted by Prof. M. A. Bigelow^ and Miss 

 Ada Watterson, of the department of nature study. The school opens July 6 and 

 will continue until August 17. 



TJie Cyprus Journal is the title of a new agricultural periodical published at 

 Nicosia, Island of Cyprus, under government auspices. It is printed in three lan- 

 guages — English, Greek, and Turkish, the first two being in parallel columns and the 

 Turkish in a sei^arate part. From the first number of this journal we learn that the 

 government has lately purchased a farm at Athalassa, near Nicosia, for the jiurpose 

 of establishing a "model and experimental farm." In addition to culture and fer- 

 tilizer experiments, and demonstrations of the use of modern agricultur?vl implements, 

 attention will also be paid to improving the quality of the native breeds of cattle. 

 Other lines of effort for the promotion of agriculture, which are carried on by the 

 government, are the maintenance of a nursery and experimental grounds, the 

 distribution gratis or by sale at low prices of various kinds of plants, and the intro^ 

 duction of agricultural implements and machinery and their sale at greatly reduced 



