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V2h acres of land, 3 of which are used for horticulture, 6 for farm crops, and the 

 remaining 3£ acres for campus and farmyard. It is the plan to make this a model 

 rural school in which agriculture, domestic science, and manual training shall be 

 leading features. There are at present 5 teachers, including the superintendent and 

 the teacher of agriculture, the latter a graduate of the University of Tennessee. 

 The school is under the control of a local board of 9 members. 



Agriculture in New Missouri Normal Schools. — Two new normal schools are to be 

 established in Missouri next year, each to have, among others, an industrial depart- 

 ment, in which instruction will be given in agriculture, horticulture, domestic art, 

 domestic science, and manual training and drawing. One-third of the time of each 

 student will be devoted for two years to preparation for teaching industrial subjects 

 in the rural and village schools. 



Agriculture in Wisconsin Public Schools.— According to a recent note in the Journal 

 of Education, Wisconsin now requires the elements of agriculture to be taught in 

 every rural school in the State, and no diploma can be issued to any pupil graduating 

 from a rural school unless he has had instruction in agriculture. 



Agriculture at the College of Science, Poonah, India. — The following facts regarding 

 agricultural instruction in this institution are furnished by Prof. J. B. Knight, a 

 graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and at present professor of agri- 

 culture in the college at Poonah. It appears that the College of Science was origi- 

 nally a college of engineering, but in 1879 provision was made for a class in 

 agriculture and forestry and 72 acres of land for a college farm were bought. In 

 1884 an herbarium and a botanical garden were added, and in 1885 a chemical 

 laboratory. 



Two years later a veterinary hospital and operating rooms were provided, and in 

 1890 graduates from the agricultural class were given a diploma in agriculture. A 

 lecturer in agricultural chemistry was appointed in 1898, and the following year the 

 standard of the agricultural work was raised and the degree changed to licentiate of 

 agriculture. The course given at present covers 3 years and includes theoretical 

 instruction in agriculture, agricultural chemistry, botany, veterinary science, etc. 

 There are at present 77 students taking the agricultural work, by far the larger pro- 

 portion being first-year men. 



Agricultural Instruction in the Transvaal. — According to the last annual report of 

 the Transvaal Department of Agriculture, there is no agricultural school in that 

 country, but the Transvaal Technical Institute has recently been established, and it 

 is expected that this will form the nucleus of a future university, which will include 

 a college of agriculture. In the meantime some instruction in agriculture is provided 

 by making arrangements to receive students or apprentices at the veterinary experi- 

 ment station and the different government laboratories, experiment farms, fruit gar- 

 dens, poultry yards, etc. School gardens are maintained in connection w r ith most 

 of the schools in the Marico and North Lichtenburg districts. 



Agricultural Schools in the West Indies. — The agricultural schools conducted under 

 the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, w T hich are now in oper- 

 ation in St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Dominica, were established for the special pur- 

 pose of affording practical training in agriculture to a selected number of boys of 

 about 15 years of age who have passed the fourth standard in the public schools. 

 After passing a probationary period of 3 months, boys are formally admitted into the 

 schools on an agreement being signed by their parents or guardians to allow the 

 boys to remain undisturbed at the school for a period of 3 or 4 years, during which 

 time they not only receive free instruction but are lodged, boarded, and clothed free 

 of expense to their parents. 



Winter Schools in the Rhine Province. — There are now 31 winter schools under the 

 control of the Rhine Province Chamber of Agriculture, 4 of which last year com- 

 pleted their twenty-fifth year. At that time the total attendance at the winter schools 



