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taining information on ngricultural topics, have been disseminated 

 among the people by the stations during the past year. The results 

 and processes of experiments are also described in thousands of news- 

 papers and other periodicals. The mailing lists of the stations have 

 largely increased during the year. The calls upon station officers to 

 make public addresses are numerous and increasing. The number of 

 such addresses reported to this Office as delivered during the past year 

 is about 750. The station correspondence with farmers is now very 

 large and touches nearly every topic connected with farm theory and 

 practice. A number of stations have made exhibits of the processes or 

 results of their investigations at State and county fairs. There have 

 been many evidences of public approval of the stations and their work 

 as indicated by acts of the State legislatures in their behalf and gifts of 

 money by local communities, agricultural associations, and private indi- 

 viduals, and by commendations of their work in the agricultural jour- 

 nals, as well as by farmers. The relatively large space given to reports 

 of the work of the stations in the agricultural press is also an indication 

 of the increasing favor in which the stations are held. 



The following statements regarding the institutions in which investi- 

 gations in agricultural science are being carried on in Japan have been 

 taken from a communication of Professor O. Kellner to this Office : 



(1) Imperial College of Agriculture, ToJdo. — This institution was 

 founded in 1876 and was at first under the control of the Department of 

 the Interior, but was afterwards transferred to the Department of Agri- 

 culture and Commerce. In June, 1890, it was made a part of the Im- 

 perial University and thus came into the charge of the Department of 

 Public Instruction. The college is divided into the faculties of agri- 

 culture, forestry, and animal industry, and possesses laboratories for 

 original researches in general chemistry, agricultural chemistry, physics, 

 zoology and entomology, botany, histology, and bacteriology, together 

 with 50 hectares of farming land. The directors of these laboratories 

 are all engaged in original research. The agricultural-chemical labora- 

 tory was for several years under the management of Edward Kinch, 

 now a professor at Cirencester, England. Since 1881 Professor O. Kell- 

 ner has been director of the laboratory, where three assistants are now 

 employed. The director is also a consulting agricultural chemist for 

 Japan. At present the laboratory is chiefly used for governmental pur- 

 poses, but also affords opportunities for instruction. Each year three 

 or four students who have already received considerable training in 

 general chemistry and quantitative analysis are admitted iiere. After 

 three years' instruction in analytical work and in agricultural experi- 

 ments, the best of these students are employed as assistants and teach- 

 ers in the agricultural colleges and schools. 



