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course 1'2'i gTaduates; from the engineering, 4; military, 42; and 

 from the practical department, 114, 



In 1874 an agrictiltnral department was added to the Imperial 

 Universitj at Tokio, the original location of the Sapporo College. 

 An exhaustive syllabus in the Department of Agriculture provides 

 examination for many profound students of this science, and ad- 

 mits them to the highest university degree. Four courses are open 

 in the university — viz., agriculture, agricultural chemistry, forestry, 

 and veterinary medicine. In 1895 there were 261 students of 

 agriculture in the university. 



From this extended though by no means exhaustive review 

 of the status of scientific instruction in agriculture throughout the 

 world, it is evident tliat all the progressive nations have caught the 

 inspiration which attaches to this branch of education, and are 

 swinging into line in their efforts to adopt it. Old ideals are rap- 

 idly giving place to the new. Educators are forced to admit that 

 mental culture is as possible under the study of science as by the 

 protracted study of languages and literature; that such study aids 

 vastly more than the latter in the training which prepares men for 

 the active duties of life ; and that if the development of husbandry 

 as a pursuit does not keep pace on an intelligent basis with every 

 other technical pursuit, national greatness and permanence will 

 never be achieved. 



EASTERN OYSTEE CULTURE IN OREGON. 



By F. L. WASHBURN, A. M., 



STATE iJIOLOGIjiT AXI) PKOFESSOK OF BIOLOGY IX THE I'NI VERSITY' OK OREGON. 



T~^URING the past two years the United States Eish Commis- 

 ^-^ sion, with characteristic enterprise, has been carrying on ex- 

 periments in the propagation of Eastern oysters in the bays of the 

 Oregon coast. Work of a similar nature is now being undertaken 

 in the State of Washington. 



As the result of an application through official sources, re-en- 

 forced possibly by the results of a biological survey made by this 

 department during the preceding summer, twenty-two barrels of 

 Eastern oysters were, on November 7, 1896, deposited on a portion 

 of Oysterville Flat, so called, in Yaquina Bay, Oregon, seven miles 

 and a half from the ocean. The oystermen of that section have 

 agreed to abstain from tonging for native oysters upon the por- 

 tion of the flat thus reserved until sufficient time has elapsed to 

 justify an opinion as to the result of the experiment. These in- 

 troduced oysters were of two varieties — the long, slender East Riv- 



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