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crops) — was as follows: Peaches, 128.6; win- 

 ter wheat (yield per acre), 110.5; clover (pro- 

 duction compared with average production), 

 105.5; rye (yield per acre), 101.8; hops, 100.1; 

 peanuts, 99.8; oats, 98.7; sweet potatoes, 98.5; 

 lemons, 98.3; rice, 98.2; tomatoes, 97.5; sugar 

 cane, 97.0; broom corn, 96.7; corn, 96.6; buck- 

 wheat, 96.5; onions, 96.1; cabbages, 95.9; 

 beans, 95.8; oranges, 95.6; cantaloupes, 95.2; 

 hay, 95.2; cotton, 95.1; tobacco, 95.0; water- 

 melons, 94.0 ; sorghum, 93.6 ; sugar beets, 93.6 ; 

 hemp, 91.0; alfalfa, 90.1; grapes, 89.5; pota- 

 toes, 88.1; apples, 86.3; barley, 82.1; pasture, 

 81.8 ; kafir corn, 81.6 ; millet, 80.3 ; raspberries, 

 78.0; blackberries, 76.6; spring wheat, 74.5; 

 flax, 58.5. 



It is stated in Nature that at the last meet- 

 ing of the British Science Guild, held in the 

 rooms of the Eoyal Geographical Society, com- 

 munications were received from the Canadian 

 and New South Wales sections of the Guild. 

 In the case of the Canadian section, Lord 

 Grey is resigning the presidentship on account 

 of his departure, and it is hoped that Lord 

 Strathcona will act as president in his place. 

 No fewer than 120 members have joined the 

 New South Wales section of the Guild, and 

 important literature has been forwarded in 

 connection with technical education and the 

 report on open-air spaces for school children 

 in Sidney. The agricultural memorial to the 

 prime minister having received numerous sig- 

 natures from representative agricultural so- 

 cieties and others was ordered to be submitted 

 to the prime minister. The report of the com- 

 mittee on the synchronization of clocks was 

 finally approved, and it was decided to ap- 

 proach the Local Government Board by depu- 

 tation and to ask the president to promote 

 legislation on the subject. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 a secondary school of agriculture for Vermont 

 boys is to be opened next September in connec- 

 tion with Lyndon Institute, Lyndon, Vt. A 

 two-year course in scientific and practical 

 agriculture will be given, designed to prepare 

 young men for successful farming under Ver- 

 mont conditions. The course will extend over 

 9 months of each year and will be open to resi- 



dents of the state eligible for admission to any 

 approved high school. A unique feature of 

 the school is the provision of two methods by 

 which students may pay their expenses, a cash 

 payment system and a work payment system. 

 Boys who choose the latter method will be re- 

 quired to stay at the school throughout the 

 year and will be allowed $25 a month with 

 board and lodging during vacation time and 

 15 cents an hour for work during the school 

 year. The establishment of the school has 

 been made possible through a gift of Theo- 

 dore N. Vail, President of the American Tele- 

 graph and Telephone Company. The director 

 of the school will be Arthur W. Merrill, a 

 graduate of the New Hampshire College, and 

 for several years teacher of agriculture at the 

 Baron de Hirsch School. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Dr. Harry Burns Hutchins, in accepting 

 the presidency of the University of Michigan, 

 states that he does so on the express condition 

 that he be relieved of the duties of the office 

 at the expiration of five years. Dr. Hutchins 

 graduated from the University of Michigan in 

 1871, and has been dean of the department of 

 law since 1895. 



Dr. Prank LeEond McVey will be installed 

 as president of the University of North Da- 

 kota on September 29. On that and on the 

 preceding day there will be various academic 

 exercises including the dedication of two new 

 buildings. Addresses are to be given by Dr. 

 Edmund J. James, president of the Univer- 

 sity of Ulinois; Dr. George E. McLean, presi- 

 dent of the University of Iowa; the Rev. S. P. 

 Matheson, chancellor of the University of 

 Manitoba, and Dr. A. Eoss Hill, president of 

 the University of Missouri. 



E. DwiGHT Sanderson, recently director and 

 entomologist of the New Hampshire Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, has accepted the 

 position of dean of the College of Agriculture, 

 West Virginia University, and vnll be at 

 Morgantown, W. Va., after September 1. 



The following new appointments for the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College are an- 



