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over 700. . . . There were, in 1889, two professors in the science department at 

 $1,500 each, a professor of chemistry, and one jarofessor for the following five sub- 

 jects: Geology, botany, zoology, meteorology, and horticulture. Since then three 

 fine lal)oratories have been erected and one rebuilt, and to-day ten n.embers of the 

 staff are required to cover the same work as the two of 1889. This is one illustration 

 of the large place that scientific research and instruction have recently come to occupy 

 in connection with agricultural work." 



The farmers' institute system is descrilied as an outgrowth of a university extension 

 movement inaugurated in 1884, in order to 1)ring the work of the college more directly 

 t ) the farmer and to win his ajipreciation of it. Referring to the progress of these 

 institutes, Professor James says: "Twenty years ago we discovered the farmer; five 

 years ago w'e discovered that he had a wife; we are beginning to open our eyes to the 

 fact that they have children. We have farmers' institutes, we have women's insti- 

 tutes. Where are the children's institutes? In the public schools. When we have 

 worked out the rural i^ublic school course, and given the half-million children of 

 farm homes all that can reasonably be given through public school work, we shall 

 be making these i-hildren's institutes effective in their general upward movement. 

 Th- rural pul)lic schools might and should be made the most important element in 

 the permanent improvement of Ontario agriculture." 



Professor James pays a high tribute to this Department, which he characterizes 

 as " without doubt the largest and best equipped agricultural organization in exist- 

 ence. Its investigations are most varied, and the story of its working is more inter- 

 esting than the latest work of fiction. It reaches out into all parts of the Continent, 

 and its agents are to be found in all parts of the world. When housed in its new 

 buildings, it will be the INIecca for all American students of the new agriculture." 



National Diploma in Agriculture. — The annual examination for the national diploma 

 in agriculture <;if Great Britain was held at Yorkshire College, Leeds, about the middle 

 of ]May. Forty-six candidates were examined in the subjects comprised in part one 

 (agricultural botany, mensuration and land surveying, general chemistry, geology, 

 and agricultural entomology) , and 25 candidates in part two (practical agriculture, 

 agricultural bookkeeping, agricultural chemistry, agricultural engineering, and veter- 

 inary science). As a result of the examinations, 35 candidates passed part one and 

 will be entitled to take the second part in 1905 or 1906; and 20 candidates passed 

 part two, and are therefore entitled to receive the national diploma in agriculture. 

 The candidates were from the various agricultural colleges throughout Great Britain. 

 Of the 55 who passed part one or two, there was a total of 15 from Yorkshire C!ol- 

 lege, 10 from Harris Institute at Preston, 6 from the AVest of Scotland Agricultural 

 College, 6 from the Harper-Adams Agricultural College, 4 from the University Col- 

 lege of Wales, 3 each from the Royal College of Science at Dublin, Durham College 

 of Science at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the Agricultural College at Holmes Chapel, 

 and one each from the agricultural colleges at Uckfleld and Aspartia, the South- 

 Eastern Agricultural College at Wye, and the University at Aberdeen. Two women 

 passed the examination in part one. 



Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. — The annual meeting of this association 

 will be held at St. Louis about Septemljer 20. 



Miscellaneous. — The first annual commencement of the Dunn County School of 

 Agriculture at Menomonie, Wisconsin, occurred May 27. The graduating class num- 

 bered 15, 5 of whom were girls. There were also 6 graduates of the short course. 



C. L. Goodrich, in charge of the instruction in agriculture at Hampton Institute, 

 has resigned his position and will sever his connection with the school at the close 

 of the present year. He will be succeeded by E. A. Bishop, a graduate of the 

 INlassachusetts Agricultural College and for many years past in charge of the agricul- 

 tural work at Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama. 



