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In Uniguaj exist fine scliools for teacliing agriculture and viti- 

 culture which are of recent organization. At Montevideo the Gov- 

 ernment has created a Department of Live Stock and Agriculture, 

 subject to the Home Ministry. The budget of 1897 provides for 

 organizing and sustaining agricultural schools and experiment 

 farms to the extent of $28,222, with an additional allowance of 

 $90,000 for experiments on farms, installation of plants, furniture, 

 instruments, etc. 



Chili is coming to the front in her educational efforts. In the 

 city of Concepcion exists a Practical School of Agriculture. Others 

 are found at Santiago, at Talca, San Fernando, Elqui, and Sala- 

 manca. The school at Santiago receives an annual subvention of 

 $40,000, and that at Concepcion the sum of $23,000. Attached to 

 the latter are agronomic stations for soil analysis and oversight of 

 irrigation systems of the state. The Sociedad ISTacional de Agri- 

 cultur at Santiago receives an annual grant of $20,000, which it dis- 

 tributes at agricultural shows and for the support of the zoological 

 garden. At Quintan K^ormal is also an Institute Agricola of high 

 grade for agricultural engineers and agronomics, or for furnishing 

 a simple certificate in agriculture. 



Other countries of South America possess education facilities, 

 but we are not supplied with details concerning them. 



Our closing glance must be directed to the far Orient. Japan, 

 the newest of kingdoms, has a model brace of institutions for supe- 

 rior education in agriculture. When Japan awoke to the new 

 ideas, to which for ages she was oblivious, her keenest statesmen 

 grasped the thought that her agricultural people needed new light 

 and intellectual quickening along the lines w^hich so vitally affected 

 their daily subsistence. She took the United States into her con- 

 fidence. She imported for a season our Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture (General Capron), in 1871-72, as " Adviser to the Colonial 

 Ofiice at Hokaido," who, after visiting Japan, advised the Govern- 

 ment to organize at once an agricultural college at Sapporo, and 

 still another at Tokio. This advice was cordially received and 

 speedily adopted. American scholars of the highest wisdom and 

 experience were imported to inaugurate the work. The college 

 was inaugurated by Colonel W. S. Clark, LL. D., President of Am- 

 herst Agricultural College, in August, 1876, with twenty-four stu- 

 dents. Its new location was Sapporo, and its new name was the 

 Sapporo Agricultural College. The Government dealt liberally in 

 grants of land, but these ample acres have since been mostly con- 

 fiscated, leaving only sufficient for educational purposes. Few 

 can estimate the wonderful uplift which has come to Japan through 

 this efficient school. In 1893 it had sent out from its agricultural 



