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feasor von Behring presented some of the details of hie plan of immunizing children 

 as well as cattle to tuberculosis. 



The congress adopted a resolution to the effecl that sanitary inspection of dairies 

 should be put in force, wherever possible, at the earliesl moment, and thai milk 

 designed for public use should I"- pasteurized, boiled or sterilized, or otherwise should 



come fr cows which have been teste I with tuberculin and shown to be free from 



tuberculosis. 



Higher Agricultural Education for Great Britain. — A. deputation recently waited upon 

 the board of agriculture in London to urge the necessity of proper provision being 

 made throughoul the countrj for research and higher education in agricultural 

 Bcience. The deputation consisted of representatives of the Universities of Cam- 

 bridge, Leeds, Wales, and North Wales, Armstrong College, University College ol 

 Reading, Midland Agricultural and Dairy Institute, Harper-Adams Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Southeastern Agricultural < tollege, < iarnarvonshire and Derbyshire County Coun- 

 cils, and other local authorities. 



It was urged that if English agriculture is to hold its own in the face of increasing 

 foreign competition, English agriculturists should be enabled to bring to their work 

 a scientific knowledge and training in scientific methods such as are placed at the dis- 

 posal of foreign rivals. Representatives of the hoard of agriculture expressed the 

 fullest sympathy with the work which the colleges had done and w ith the objeel of 



the deputation, and indicated their readiness to lend the movement such aid a- wa- 

 in the power of the hoard. 



Agricultural Education in Denmark. — The report of the trip of the Scottish Commis- 

 sion <<\i Agriculture to Denmark, .lime L9-30, L904, devotes about 1 1 pages to educa- 

 tion, including a brief description of the following features of the Danish system of 



schools: i 1 i The common school system. (2) The people's high schools, private 

 institutions, some of which were established as early as L845, and now numbering 7s. 

 attended by about 6,000 yourfg people of both sexes between L8 and 25 years of age. 

 From the first these schools gave instruction in land surveying, agricultural chemistry, 

 and other sciences underlying the practice of agriculture; but when agriculture devel- 

 oped and increased in importance this provision proved inadequate, and hence arose 



a necessity for the establishment of purely agricultural schools. 



(3) The agricultural schools, which are branches from the high schools, having 

 agriculture and the natural sciences for the principal subjects of instruction. There 



are now 44 of these schools, 14 maintained entirely separate from the high schools, 1 

 a separate dairy school, and 29 associated with high schools. Admission to these 



schools is limited to persons from is to 25 years of age who .have had at least one 

 year's experience in practical farming. A demonstration station is connected with 

 the agricultural school at Dalum and experiment stations with those at Ascov and 

 Lyngby. 



(4) The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Institute at ( lopenhagen, which enrolled 

 during the year preceding the visit of the commission about 300 students, 130 of whom 

 were students in agriculture proper, while the remainder were students of forestry, 

 horticulture, land surveying, and veterinary science, state aid to the Royal Vet- 

 erinary and Agricultural College amounted in 1904 to $71,780, and to experiment 

 stations and den stration fields t" $14,550. The people's high schools and agri- 

 cultural schools were also aided by the Government to the extent of $37,345. 



Experiment Stations for Cape of Good Hope. — A separate from an article in Scien 

 South Africa states that it has l. ecu definitely decided to establish experiment stations 

 in the Cape of Good Hope, and that Parliament has \oted the funds necessary for 

 commencing this work. The plan will not be to establish "one large and elaborate 

 institution, hut rather a number of small separate stations, each working out the 

 problems of its own region; ... it has been decided to make the work in the first 



instance eminently practical, to restrict it to questions that will appeal at once t<> the 

 pockets of the people, deferring to a later stage the study of matters le-^s immediately 



