EDITORIAL. 813 



of experimental farms in connection with experiment stations that 

 there is a movement in that comitry towai'd tlic extension of the so- 

 calk'd •"American system" of lield experiments, conducted on a laroc 

 scale and in a more practical way than has hitherto been customary in 

 that country. Two new stations have been estal)lished durint^- the year, 

 a Hax-culturc station at 8orau and a viticultural experiment station at 

 Weinsberg-. 



In the AVest Indies and South America also the claims of a^'ricultural 

 education and research have received much attention. The Depart- 

 ment of Au-riculture in the West Indies has established three new 

 stations at Montserrat and one at Tortola, and has conducted several 

 meetings of planters and investigators, at which great interest in the 

 advancement of agriculture was displa3'ed. The Bolivian Government 

 has estal)lished an agricultural college at Cochabamba and an agricul- 

 tural school for Indians at ITmala. Brazil has recently established a 

 botanical garden and experimental demonstration field at San Vicente; 

 and Argentina, which hitherto had no stations, has decided to establish 

 four experiment stations on the same general plan as those in the 

 United States. 



An irrigation experiment station has been established at Calgar}^, 

 Canada, a dairy station at Gembloux, Belgium, and a veterinary path- 

 ological institute and animal \accine institute at Christiania, Norway; 

 and a department of agriculture, with a small staff of experts attached, 

 has been organized at Bangalore b}^ the government of Mysore, India. 



Thus the organized effort for the advancement and improvement of 

 agriculture increases year l)y year, the example and experience of one 

 country seeming to stinudate others to action or to increased activity'. 

 The well-deserved reputation of the American stations for doing work 

 of practical bearing and quite direct application to agricultural prac- 

 tice is causing them to be looked to by the newer countries, and the 

 so-called American sj'stem is finding many imitators. 



