66 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



PROGRESS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



General agricultural experiment stations were established during 

 the past year at Linz, Austria; La Rioja, Argentina; Therezina, 

 Brazil ; San Jose, Costa Rica ; Carcassonne, France ; Kissidougou and 

 Mamou, French Guinea; Bettiah Estate, Bengal^ India; and at 

 Burgos and Pontevedra, Spain. With the object of improving agri- 

 cultural and stock-raising conditions in the Pampa Central Terri- 

 tory the Argentine Government proposes to establish agricultural 

 stations throughout the entire district, commencing with Villa Iris, 

 Bernasconi, Epuvel, Quebec, Macachin, and Guatrache. 



Special experiment stations, or those working along particular 

 lines or with special crops, were also established in many of the 

 foreign countries. A station for cacao culture was established at 

 San Antonio, Brazil; one for rubber culture at Issororo, British 

 Guiana ; a viticultural station at Toulouse, France; a forestry station 

 at Chimnitz, Hungary; a station for beet culture at Rovigo, Italy; 

 experimental gardens and laboratories of agricultural chemistry, 

 vegetable pathologj^ and entomologj^ at Fort de France, Martinique; 

 an experiment station for cotton culture at Port Herald, Xyasaland 

 Protectorate; a rice experiment station in the Department of Lam- 

 bayeque. Peru ; and in Spain enological stations at Aranda de Duero, 

 Felanitx, and Valdepenas; a viticultural station at Madrid; and a 

 station for olive culture at Tortosa. The Spanish Government has 

 also on foot a project to spend 2,000,000 pesetas in supplying the 

 existing agricultural schools and experiment stations with modern 

 necessary equipment. 



Model and permanent demonstration farms were established in 

 Brazil at Bemfica, and one for coconut culture in the State of 

 Espirito Santo; in India at Suri, Bengal; and in Santo Domingo 

 a tobacco experiment field at Jacaguas. Botanical stations were 

 established on the Island of CarriacoUj British West Indies, and at 

 Eala, Belgian Kongo. 



In Canada steps were taken to establish three new experiment sta- 

 tions, one at Fort Resolution, one at Fort Smith, and the third at Fort 

 Providence. These three stations in the Northwest will carry the 

 experimental work about 150 to 200 miles farther north than here- 

 tofore attempted. The Province of Alberta has taken steps to estab- 

 lish five demonstration farms at a total cost of $125,000. These farms 

 are all to be different, and in addition to the set of model fann 

 buildings a public hall for short course schools is to be erected. A 

 bulletin containing details, plans, and cost of the farm buildings is 

 to be published as a guide to farmers. An experimental farm was 

 established at Cap Rouge, Quebec. This farm contains 320 acres, and 

 the experimental work to be conducted there will be along the lines 



