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proved methods of dairy practice. The farm is to be in charge of 

 the government dairy expert. 



A new government agricultural station has been established near 

 the city of Oaxaca. ^Mexico. A large estate is being adapted to its 

 needs and suitable buildings erected. 



The government of Madras has opened a new agricultural college 

 and research institution at Coimbatur. 



Meat has been added to the diet of the Japanese army, and a 

 connnission has been appointed by the Japanese department of agri- 

 culture to visit foreign countries to gather information to serve as a 

 basis for the promotion of stock raising in Japan. 



Prof. Julius Kiihn, a Nestor of agricultural science in Germany, 

 and prominent writer on the nutrition of farm animals, has retired 

 from the directorship of the agricultural institute at the University 

 of Halle, at an ad\aneed age." 



TWO NOTABLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTIGATORS. 



Dr. Samuel W. Johnson, director of the Connecticut State Experi- 

 ment Station from its organization at New Haven in 1877 until 

 January 1, lUOO (PL I), died July 21, after a brief illness, at the 

 age of 79 years. 



The name of Doctor Johnson will always be intimately linked 

 with the early history and the development of agi'icultural science 

 in this country, as it will be with the establishment of the agricul- 

 tural experiment-station system as an American institution. He was 

 a pioneer of pioneers, a leader of thought, a disciple of a new idea 

 in science. As teacher, writer, investigator, and guiding hand in the 

 administration of the first experiment station. Doctor Johnson exer- 

 cised a most imjiortani influence in developing thought and under- 

 standing along the line of the relations of science to agriculture. 

 His greatest work was done before the experiment-station movement 

 l)ecam(' national, and before popular sentiment had embraced the 

 idea of a system of institutions devoted to scientific work in the 

 interest of practical agriculture. But his labors, his studies, and his 

 |)ul)li'- utterances prepared the way for the reception of this idea; 

 and the example of usefulness furnished by the station under his 

 direction was a powerful stimulus in propagating this idea and bring- 

 ing it to fruition in other States. As a teacher of teachers, as a 

 leader in agricultural science, and as a father and promoter of the 

 movement to briniT the sciences to the aid of the farmer throuirh the 

 experiment stations. Doctor Johnson rendered signal service to the 

 cause of a<rricultur:il iitl\;iii('ement. and lias left a name to be reniem- 

 bered with great honor. 



" I'lofes.sor Kiihn died .\pril 14, 1910, aged S4 years. 



