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tion of forces for attacking the problems of agriculture exists nowhere 

 else. It is believed, therefore, that largely increased benefits will soon 

 accrue to agriculture from this union of the stations with the Depart- 

 ment. At the same time the stations were never so strong locally, and 

 are better equipped than ever before to work ])y themselves on prob- 

 lems of immediate importance to their own constituencies. 



Instances of governmental activity for the advancement of agricul- 

 ture in the old world as well as in the new are more numerous than 

 formerly, indicating that greater enlightment on the practical value 

 of the results of experiment station work is having a marked effect. 

 The Russian Department of Agriculture and Imperial Domains is dis- 

 playing considerable activity in its soil and forestry investigations and 

 in the establishment of stations for the investigation of special sub- 

 jects, such as the growing of flax, cotton, olives, etc. 



In Australia the Victoria Department of Agriculture is undergoing 

 reorganization. The Victoria Royal Commission on Technical Educa- 

 tion has Ijrought to a close its study of Australian, European, and 

 American departments of agriculture, agricultural schools, and experi- 

 ment stations, and published its final (sixth) report. The Minister of 

 Agriculture is now seeking a director of agriculture, who will proceed 

 to reorganize the Department and put it on a better working basis. 



In England the Board of Agriculture has made larger grants than 

 formerly to agricultural colleges and societies for conducting agricul- 

 tural investigations. The Agricultural P^ducation Conmiittee is doing- 

 important work for agriculture and agricultural education by publish- 

 ing circulars on various topics and nature-study leaflets for teachers. 

 During the year Messrs. John S. and T. M. Remington have established 

 the Aynsome Experiment Station at Lancashire, a private institution. 



The Austrian Ciovernment has recently established several experi- 

 ment stations, notably the station for plant culture at Briinn, the sta- 

 tion for investigations in plant and animal production at Otterbach, 

 and an agricultural physiological station, with divisions of chemistry, 

 physiology, and bacteriolog}^, at Prague. In Hungary an experiment 

 station for the analysis and study of wines was established last year at 

 Fiume. 



France has established at Nogent-sur-Marne a colonial garden to 

 have administrative control over French colonial stations and botanic 

 gardens in different parts of the world and to furnish these institutions 

 with seeds and plants. During the year oenological stations have been 

 established at Toulouse and Beaune and an agricultural station at 

 Besancon. 



In Germany five years of successful work at the Lauchstadt Experi- 

 mental Farm, which is connected with the Agricultural Chemical 

 Experiment Station at Halle, has given so much evidence of the value 



