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Bulgaria, Egypt, Persia, Mexico, Equador, Uruguay, Nicaragua, 

 Cuba, and San Salvador. It is expected that, in accordance with the 

 wish of King Victor Emanuel, the new palace in Rome will be com- 

 pleted in 1907, and the following year the work of the institute will 

 commence. 



INDIA 



In India the work of instruction and research in agriculture is in a 

 formative condition, but there is evidence that the government of that 

 country is thoroughly aroused to the desirability and importance of 

 aiding its basic industry by means of research, education of different 

 grades, demonstration, and close contact with the farmers. At the 

 head of the institutions for agricultural education and research will 

 stand the Imperial AgriculturalCollege at Pusa (to be opened in 1907), 

 where also are located the imperial agricultural research station, an 

 experimental farm, and a cattle breeding farm. The college is located 

 on a government estate of 1,358 acres, and the buildings now in prog- 

 ress will cost considerably over a half million dollars, toward which 

 has been applied a portion of the donation of $150,000 made by Mr. 

 Henry Phipps, of this country, to which reference has previously been 

 made. The organization of a staff composed of European specialists 

 with native assistants has now been completed. The college will 

 provide specialized post-graduate courses in the hope that the best of 

 the native students will ultimately be fitted for the higher appoint- 

 ments in the imperial department. It will also provide men with a 

 good agricultural education for employment in the regular government 

 service, and as agents and managers for owners of estates and the like. 



The institutions for agricultural education include, besides the 

 agricultural college at Pusa, a college of agriculture in Madras, a col- 

 lege of science at Poona, the Imperial Foresty Research Institute and 

 College at Delira Dun, and agricultural schools at Sibpur (Calcutta), 

 Cawnpur, and Nagpur. The agricultural college and research institute 

 for Madras is now in course of erection at Coimbatore. In 1 905 a grant 

 to the presidency by the government of India of $50,000 per annum, 

 wliichwas subsequently increased to $100,000, added to the allotment 

 made by the government of Madras removed all financial difficulty 

 experienced by the Madras agricultural department. The result of 

 this improved financial condition was the decision of the government 

 to close the agricultural college at Saidapet and establish a new college 

 and research institute, adequately equipped with laboratories and 

 class rooms and with a suitable farm near Coimbatore. 



The staff will consist of an expert agriculturist as the principal of 

 the college, a superintendent of the central farm, a government 

 botanist, and an agricultural chemist. Ultimately an entomologist 

 and mycologist may be added. The stafi" will combine teacliing with 



