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and other crops, and makes a specialty of teaching its pupils the practical use 

 and advantages of machinery in agricultural operations. 



The agricultural bank in Paraguay has established weather bureaus in the 

 principal farming centers and proposes to compile statistics based on data ob- 

 tained from these stations. The government of Uruguay has granted 10 scholar- 

 ships in its agricultural school to young Paraguayans who desire to continue 

 their studies in Uruguay. 



A law recently enacted by the Peruvian Congress establishes an industrial 

 school in the city of Iquitos. This school has an agricultural department and 

 a department of arts and crafts, and is to be maintained from the proceeds of a. 

 tax on ruTiber shipped through the port of Iquitos and on the registered ton- 

 nage of vessels clearing from this port with cargoes for delivery to the port of 

 Loreto. The course offered by each department is to extend over three years. 

 The agricultural department is intended to fit students for trained work in the 

 vast agricultural region of Peru, east, of the Andes Mountains, much of which 

 is as yet unexplored except in the immediate vicinity of navigable streams, 

 and nearly all of which is virgin territory for the development of agriculture. 

 The site of the agricultural department will be the Caucho Experimental Sta- 

 tion in Iquitos. An executive decree of April 10, 1917, also provided for the 

 reorganization of the national school of agriculture and veterinary science and 

 the enlargement of its functions. 



A recent executive decree in Salvador provides rules and regulations for the 

 operation of the pathological-vegetable laboratory established under the gov- 

 ernmental order of September 19, 1914, for the study of the diseases of plants 

 and proper methods and remedies for preventing and combating them. 



An executive decree in Uruguay places its agronomic stations under the im- 

 mediate supervision and control of the Department of Fomento. At the sug- 

 gestion of the park commission of Montevideo, a school for gardeners has been 

 established in the national capital for the purpose of supplying special skilled 

 labor of this kind. 



The Uruguay national nursery at Toledo is furnishing a large number of 

 trees for planting operations. A recent decree prescribes that persons owning 

 not less than 100 hectares of land shall be supplied gratis with 100 trees, and 

 it is estimated that 100,000 trees will be distributed annually in this way. The 

 nursery referred to will also donate to rural communities, schools, police 

 farms, etc., 100,000 trees during the present year and 200,000 trees yearly 

 thereafter. For the purpose of increasing the cultivation of flax, which has 

 considerably decreased during the last few years, the president of the Republic 

 has issued a decree requiring expert agronomists at the Estanzuela nursery, 

 as well as those at the agricultural stations at Salto, Paysandu, and Cerro 

 Largo, to investigate and report on the different kinds of flax grown in these 

 regions. 



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