Thus far. comparatively little has been done in the United States toward the establishment of schools of agriculture of secondary or high school grade. The most successful school of this kind is that maintained at the University of Minnesota. A similar school has been estab lished at the University of Nebraska. The agri cultural courses maintained in a number of the institutions for colored students in the South are of this grade, notably at Hampton. Va., and Tuskegee, Ala. A few private schools of agri culture have recently been established. There is some agitation in favor of the introduction of agriculture in the public high schools.
Nature study is being rapidly introduced into the common schools, and more or less successful attempts are being made in a number of the States, especially New York, Indiana, and Penn sylvania, to adapt teaching in this subject to the requirements of the rural schools.
13nmsll EMPIRE. A chair of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh was founded and endowed as early as 1790, and a professorship of rural economy was established in the Univer sity of Oxford in 179(3. A professorship of agri culture has recently (1899) been founded in the University of Cambridge. The Albert Institu tion at Glasnevin, near Dublin, has existed since I53S, and the Royal Agricultural College, Ciren •ester, since 1845. Other important centres of agricultural education in Great Britain are the College of Agriculture, Downton, near Salisbury; the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical Col lege, Glasgow; the University College of North Wales, Bangor: the University College of Wales, Aberystwith; the Durham College of Sci ence, Newcastle-on-Tyne; the Oxford Extension College. Reading: the University of Aberdeen;
and Yorkshire College, Leeds.
Grants of money in aid of education in agri culture are made through the board of agricul ture. Instruction in agriculture is given in a number of the rural schools. Special attention is being given to practical training in dairying, and schools and classes in this subject are main tained in a number of places. Traveling schools, equipped with modern dairy apparatus, have attracted much attention in recent years.
In Canada, the agricultural college at Guelph, Ontario. is a very successful institution. There are a number of secondary schools of agriculture in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and there is a dairy school in New Brunswick. Provision has recent ly been made for instruction in agriculture in normal and public schools in different parts of the Dominion.
In Australia, there are agricultural colleges at Gatton, Queensland; Richmond. New South Wales; Roseworthy, South Australia ;..and Doak ie and Longerenong, Victoria. Agricultural in struction is also given by traveling experts at tached to the colonial departments of agriculture. In New Zealand is the Canterbury Agricultural College at Lincoln, and in Cape Colony there is a school of agriculture at Elsenburg.