farm, and each girl will 1"- required to do practical work in floriculture and othei 

 kindred subjects. 



Personal Mention. — General Roy Stone, the firsl chief of the Office of Road Inquiry 

 of this Departnienl and a distinguished veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish- 

 American War, died at his home in Mendham, near Morristown, V .1.. on August 7. 

 and was interred with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery on 

 August 10. He was 72 years of age. 



• reneral Stone was a pioneer Leader in the movemenl for g I roads in the United 



States. For many years previous to the establishment of the Office of Road [nquiry, 

 Genera] Stone lia<l been agitating the improvement of the countrj roads, and in his 

 home county In- succeeded in perfecting a system of roads which served as a practical 

 object lesson for the state of New Jersey and led to the building of a complete sj stem 

 of improved highways in that State, lie was largely instrumental in securing the 

 passage of the bill for the establishment of the Office of Road I nquiry in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and when the law went into effect he was appointed bj Secretary 

 Morton as a special agent in charge, organizing and directing the work. With a 



limited appropriation, he « 1 i < 1 much to popularize the movement for g 1 roads, and 



he inaugurated a system of object-lesson roads which greatly stimulated interest in 

 tin- subject. Many instructive publications were issued under his direction. 



Eugene Risler, honorary director of the National Agricultural Institute of France, 

 died August 6 at the age of 77. 1 1 is early agricultural studies were carried on at 

 Grignon and Versaille in France and at Hohenheim and Regenwald in Germany, 

 following which he traveled extensively, studying the agricultural condition- and 

 practices in various countries. He became a frequent contributor to the French 

 agricultural press, his first articles setting forth his observations on agriculture in 

 the countries he visited. In 1856 he secured an estate of aboul 200 acre- n< ar Nyon 

 in Switzerland and established there at his own expense the first Swiss agricultural 

 experiment station. When the National Agricultural Institute was reestablished at 

 Paris in 1876 Risler was made professor of comparative agriculture, and in 1879 he 

 succeeded Tisserand, who had been appointed director of agriculture in the agricul- 

 tural ministry, as director of the institute, a position which he held until his retire- 

 ment in 1901. Among his numerous agricultural publications is his well-known 

 treatise on agricultural geology, consisting of 4 volumes. A quite full account of 

 his life by II. Hitier is given in No. 34 of the current volume of the Journal d' Agri- 

 culture Pratique, to the columns of which he contributed frequently ever since - 



W. II. Beal, of this Office, J. T. Willard, of Kansas, L. II. Smith, of Illinois, and 

 W. L. Jepson, of California, were delegates to the International Congress of Agricul- 

 tural Education at Liege, Belgium, July 28 and 29. The congress was well attended. 

 about 150 delegates, representing 12 countries, being present. An international com- 

 mittee was appointed to give continuity to the work of the congress, I>r. A. C. True. 

 YV. II. Beal and L. H. Smith being the American representatives on this committee. 



A. r>. Graham, who as superintendent of Springfield Township Schools, Clark 

 County. Ohio, has for a number of year- been active in promoting agricultural 

 education in the public schools, has been placed in charge ot a newly organized 

 department of agricultural extension in the Ohio State University. One of the fea- 

 tures of the extension work to be undertaken will be the publication at regular 

 periods of bulletins relating to the extension of agriculture in the rural schools. 



John A. Widtsoe, who recently retired from the directorship of the Utah station, 



has become director of the agricultural department of Brigham Young University at 

 Provo, Utah. For three or four years past the church Bchools have been giving 

 attention to the teaching of elementary agriculture, and there is considerable demand 

 for that kind of instruction at Brigham Young University. It is proposed to 



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