330 BEPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



JAPAN. 



Higher schools of agriculture and horticulture were opened in Sep- 

 tember, 1909, at Chiba and Kagoshima. These schools offer three- 

 year theoretical and practical courses which articulate with the 

 courses in the lower schools, i. e., the middle school of five years which 

 is preceded by the primary school of six years. 



MEXICO. 



There has been notable progress recently in the development of 

 agricultural interests in the Department of the Promotion of Public 

 Works. AMiat was formerly the division of agriculture has been 

 organized into a bureau of agriculture in charge of a director general 

 of agriculture. The bureau consists of five divisions: (1) Agricul- 

 tural education, agricultural experiments, plant diseases, and animal 

 industry; (2) agricultural propagation; (3) rural economics and 

 agricultural statistics; (4) forestry, and (5) biological investigations. 

 Each division is in charge of a chief. As in the United States, the 

 Federal departments in Mexico can regulate educational affairs only 

 in Federal ten*itory. There is a Federal law requiring that elemen- 

 tary agriculture be taught in all of the primary schools of Federal 

 districts and territories in accordance with regulations promulgated 

 by the department of public instruction. Secondary agricultural 

 instruction will be given in the local agricultural schools in connec- 

 tion with experiment stations, which are or will be established in the 

 States and Territories and will be under the direction of the Depart- 

 ment of the Promotion of Public Works. Higher agricultural 

 instruction is given in the National School of Agriculture and Veteri- 

 nary Science. The secretary of the promotion of public works is 

 authorized to give subsidies to public and private institutions giving 

 instruction in agriculture, and the curricula of such institutions are 

 subject to the approval of the secretary. The plans of the new 

 bureau of agriculture include short courses in agriculture at the 

 National School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, and also at 

 the experiment stations and at other agi^icultural centers. Traveling 

 instructors will be employed. 



! A Federal school of forestry was opened in June, 1909, at a point 

 about 15 miles west of the City of Mexico, and a private school of 

 agriculture was established near Villa de Tanhuato de Guerrero by 

 Senora Serrano, who contributed about $120,000 (Mexican) for the 

 erection of a building for the purpose. 



ROUMANIA. 



In order to encourage agricultural instruction in Roumania the 

 Department of Public Instruction has decided to reduce the military 



