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PROGRESS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Efforts are being put forth to provide national encouragement of 

 British agricuhure and forestry, with an increase of the national 

 grant to agriculture by $1,000,000 with a view to more extensive de- 

 veloi^ment of the resources of the country. Such projects as the 

 institution of schools of forestry, the purchase and preparation of 

 land for afforestation, the maintenance of experimental forests, in- 

 creased aid to scientific research in agriculture, experimental farms, 

 the encouragement of agricultural cooperation and better transporta- 

 tion facilities, sj^stematic extension work, and the aiding in a general 

 way of a movement back to the farm are contemplated. An extensive 

 afforestation project has been receiving considerable discussion. It is 

 estimated that 9.000,000 acres are available for the purpose, and an 

 annual afforestation of 10,000 acres would afford employment to 

 18,000 men temporarily and 1,500 permanently and would eventually 

 yield a large revenue. 



The new^ agricultural buildings for Cambridge University were 

 made ready for occupancy during the year. The cost, with equip- 

 ment, is estimated at about $87,500. 



The agricultural and road development act passed by the British 

 Parliament provides for aiding and developing agriculture and 

 rural industries by promoting scientific research, instruction, and ex- 

 periments in the science, methods, and practice of agriculture. The 

 president of the board of agriculture and fisheries has appointed a 

 committee of 15 to advise the board on all scientific questions bearing 

 directly on the importance of agriculture, and especially as to meth- 

 ods to be adopted for promoting agricultural research in universities 

 and other scientific schools, aiding scientific research workers, and 

 insurinof that new scientific discoveries are utilized for the benefit of 

 agriculture. 



A society was organized under the presidency of the Duke of 

 Devonshire for the purpose of raising $25,000 for the purchase of 

 about 200 acres of land adjoining the present experimental fields at 

 Rothamsted, and erecting buildings for feeding experiments with 

 crops to be grown there. 



The appropriations for Canadian agriculture authorized for the 

 ensuing year include items of $185,000 for the maintenance of experi- 

 mental farms, including an increase of $45,000 for the establishment 

 of additional farms, $10,000 for the publications of the experimental 

 farms, $5,000 for five stations for the fumigation of nursery stock, 

 $100,000 for the development of the dairy and fruit industries, $82,000 

 for the establishment of cold-storage warehouses and the experiments 

 in cold storage for fruit, $52,000 for the development of the meat 



