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charge of one of the professors of the college. The plan has grown out of the desire 

 of many of the men to travel in this country for the purpose of studying agricultural 

 conditions, special agricultural industries, and the management of large farm enter- 

 prises. A petition signed by 17 students led to deciding upon the plan for such a 

 traveling school to be undertaken the coming summer, and this plan has been ratified 

 by the board of truster-. 



"Certain academic requirements are made obligatory, as well as the consent of the 

 faculty concerning each individual participant. The trip will last at least six weeks, 

 and a deposit of S400 must be placed with the university treasurer, unexpended 

 moneys to be returned. Six hours of university credit are given. It is hoped that 

 Prof. Thomas F. Hunt will take charge of the first trip — summer of 1906." 



The party hopes to have its own cars, a sleeper and a dining car, the latter being 

 equipped with books and writing materials and serving as a study room in the even- 

 ing. The proposed route lies through Washington, the cotton, tobacco, and trucking 

 States of the South, the sugar and rice industries of Louisiana, the cattle ranches of 

 Texas, and to the far West where irrigation methods, etc., will be studied. This is 

 a new departure in agricultural education and will be followed with much interest. 



Colorado School of Forestry. — We learn through Science that Gen. W. J. Palmer 

 and Dr. W. A. Bell, of Colorado Springs, have given to Colorado College a tract of 

 15,000 acres of forest land to serve for field work in the practical study of sylvi- 

 culture and forest botany. The lecture course in the forestry department will be 

 given at Colorado College. The tract is situated at the foot of Pikes Peak, and affords 

 a splendid opportunity for the study of irrigation, as well as forestry problems. It 

 is stated that when Colorado was first settled it contained 36,000 square miles of 

 forest area, and since that time 30,000 square miles of virgin forests have been 

 destroyed. The forest school will be opened next September. 



A People's High School in Austria. — A people's high school, similar to the people's 

 high schools in Denmark (E. S. R., 17, p. 519), is maintained at Otterbach, near 

 Schurding, by George Wieninger, president of the local agricultural society, who 

 meets all expenses of the institution except the salaries of nonresident lecturers, 

 which are paid by the State. The equipment of the school includes a model farm, 

 museum of agricultural, natural science, and ethnographic specimens, a large audi- 

 torium, and a library. Free lectures and demonstrations have been given since 

 1845, and since 1890 32 of these have been given each year. These lectures and 

 demonstrations are given on Sunday and are attended annually by from 3,000 to 

 4,000 farmers and farmers' sons who can not attend school. The object of the 

 lectures is to assist in the general instruction of the rural population and to diffuse 

 special knowledge concerning modern agricultural methods. Those who attend 100 

 lectures receive a diploma; those who attend 200, a silver medal, and those who 

 attend 300, a gold medal. Lectures are given on potatoes, fertilizers, forestry, science, 

 and agriculture, diseases of digestive organs, the herd book in animal husbandry, 

 sugar as food, etc. In addition to these Sunday lectures short courses of from 1 to 

 2 weeks are offered in feeding, distilling, bookkeeping, poultry culture, dairying, 

 and in normal work for teachers. 



Agricultural Education at Antigua. — As described in a recent number of the Agri- 

 cultural News, instruction in agriculture in Antigua includes lessons at the grammar 

 school in agricultural science and practical work in the school garden. It is claimed 

 that pupils pursuing such a course are able upon leaving school to deal much more 

 intelligently and successfully with agricultural problems than those who have no 

 such training. Attention is also given at the grammar school to the training of 

 teachers for giving some instruction in agricultural subjects in the elementary 

 schools. With this object in view courses of lectures on the elements of plant 

 physiology and on tropical hygiene have been given to the teachers of the elementary 

 schools of the island and to the students of a female training college in Antigua. 





