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industry, $250,000 for animal diseases, $50,000 for the seed-inspection 

 work, $20,000 for the enforcement of the meat and canned foods acts, 

 $5,000 for tobacco investigations, and $10,000 for the International 

 Institute of Agriculture. J. 11. Grisdale, of the Experimental Farm, 

 was appointed Dominion agriculturist, with supervision of operations 

 at all branch stations and at the Central Farm in both animal hus- 

 bandry and field crops. An experimental farm under the general 

 supervision of the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa is being 

 established on Prince Edward Island, a tract of 65 acres having been 

 selected close to Charlottetown on which experiments will be con- 

 ducted on cereals, fruits, vegetables, trees, shrubs, etc. J. A. Clark 

 was appointed superintendent. The Canadian Pacific Railway estab- 

 lished a demonstration farm at Strathmore, Canada. 



Considerable activity was shown in the establishment of experi;nent 

 farms in Australia. In New South Wales the Nyngan Experimental 

 Farm was opened, together with a viticultural station near Raymond 

 Terrace, where work was begun on the growing of phylloxera- 

 resistant stocks. Experimental worlv was also inaugurated in various 

 parts of Kangaroo Island. An experiment farm of GOO acres was 

 established at Loxton, in South Australia, where work along dry- 

 farming lines is to be taken up. Steps were also taken toward the 

 establishment of a poultry experiment farm in South Australia, and 

 between Petersburg and Yunta experimental dry-farming work was 

 commenced on a 3,000-acre tract, attention being first given to fallow- 

 ing operations. An experiment farm was also established at Shannon, 

 on Eyre Peninsula. 



The botanical department of agi'iculture in India has laid out a 

 farm and erected a building with a view to studying the decline of 

 the Tasar silk industry, and for the purpose of fostering the same. 

 Four stations, including one sericultural station, were established in 

 Indo China. 



In Germany the Dairy Experiment Station and Institute at Klein- 

 hof-Tapiau was removed on April 1, 1910, to Konigsberg, where it is 

 housed in recently erected buildings of the Konigsberg Cooperative 

 Dairy Association. The Agricultural Experiment Station of the 

 Chamber of Agriculture of the District of Cassel was removed in 

 June from Marburg to Harleshausen, near Cassel. An institute for 

 animal physiology was established near Greifswald, on the small 

 Baltic Island of Riems, under the direction of Prof. N. Zuntz, of 

 Berlin. One of the principal lines of work to be taken up by this in- 

 stitution is bacteriological investigations for the control of foot-and- 

 mouth disease. This institute will be under the control of the Uni- 

 versity of Greifswald. 



Steps were taken during the year for the organization of an asso- 

 ciation of agricultural experiment stations in Austria, and at a pre- 



