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The superintendent of District No. L9, with headquarters at Bayamon, reports 

 that *' the agricultural school has continued its excellent work and rendered entire 

 satisfaction." This school has given considerable attention to the beautification of 

 the school grounds, in which work the girls have assisted. 



Attention isalsocalled to agricultural work inaugurated in a rural school in this 

 distriot. The oecessarj tools were loaned by the Department of Education, while 

 the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, al Mayaguez, furnished seed and 

 many valuable suggestions as to planting and cultivating. Each boy was given a 

 plat of ground and Beed for planting. The experiment has proven a success in every 

 way. fine crops of garden truck being grown. Five other schools have asked to 

 enjoy the same privilege. 



Agriculture in the Primary Schools of New Zealand. — The New Zealand department 

 of agriculture is encouraging the introduction of agriculture into tin- primary schools 

 of that country. The biologist of the department has been conducting experiments 

 for several year- in connection with the Mauriceville West Primary School in teach- 

 ing tin- elements of agricultural science and scl 1 gardening. In his reporl on the 



school garden work, he >ays: "The time allotted to this work is 2 hours per week, 

 and it lias been found that not only does it not interfere with the effective teaching 

 of other subjects, hut it is actually an assistance, providing, as it doe-, additional 

 subjects for composition exercises, increasing the pupils' powers pf observation, and 

 inculcating habits of neatness and methodical arrangement." 



Kaerehave Agricultural School.— According to a note in the Journal of the Board of 

 Agriculture for January, 1906, a school for the training and instructing of renters and 

 laborers of both sexes was established near Ringsted, Denmark, with Government 

 aid in November, 1903. The pupils are chiefly girls and farm hands, from 20 to 25 

 years of age, who attend from 5 months to a year, and older persons who attend the 

 short courses of 1 1 days. During the time the school has 1 ieen in operation, it ha^ 

 heen attended by 375 pupils in long courses and 800 persons in shorl courses. The 

 land for the school (54.} acres) was donated by the town of Ringsted. The depart- 

 ment of agriculture granted a loan of $16,170 to aid in starting the school. 



A New School of Agriculture in France. — A school of agriculture has recently been 

 established at Hennebont (Morbihan), which is well equipped with land for demon- 

 stration purposes, orchards, domestic animals, and other agricultural material. 



South African School of Forestry. — The government of Cape Colony is establishing 

 the South African School of Forestry at Tokai, to provide a course of instruction for 

 training young men for practical and scientific work in Smith African forestry. 

 Provision i- being made for 10 resident students at Tokai. who will he received from 

 the South African College and other similarly equipped institutions in the colony 

 after having completed the theoretical work in forestry. 



Two New Veterinary Journals. — The great progress which has been made in recent 

 years in the study of animal diseases in the Tropics has made it desirable t<> publish 

 a periodical in which contributions relating to tropical diseases in various countries 

 will he gathered together for the benefit of workers engaged in this line of investiga- 

 tion. It often happens that the library facilities for such workers in the tropical 

 countries are not the best, and it is. therefore, especially desirable to get all the 

 recent material in as available a form as possible. 



The Journal <>f Tropical Veterinary Science, the first number of which has just 

 been issued, seeks to supply this need. Attention is called, in an editorial note in 

 the first number, to the fact that many of the tropical diseases in animals are infec- 

 tious also for man, and more information is desired regarding the cause ami control 

 of these diseases both for the guidance of intending settlers in tropical countries and 

 for the benefit of animal industry in those regions. 



A new journal devoted to infectious diseases of animals and methods which con- 

 tribute to the hygiene of farm animals (Zeitechrifi fur Infectionskrankheiten para- 



