SECOND PART. 



ABSTRACTS 



AGRICULTURAL INTELUGEXCE 



GENERAL IKFORMATIOX. 



7-1 - Creation of a School of Silkworm Rearing in the Republic of Colombia. — a\- 



I'lita agiicula, Or^ano del MuiistLrio dc Ai^nciiituia y Ci vuicio, Year i, Xo. ii, pp. 642-644. 



Bogota, Xovember 191 5. 



By law Xo. 13 of 1915 the Government of Colombia provided for the 

 encouragement of the silk industry which may prove a source of wealth to 

 the country. In pursuance of this law, some trials of mulberry growing 

 and silkworm nurseries having proved successful at Bucaramanga, there 

 was created in that town, b}- decree No. 1989 of 1915, a School of silkworm 

 rearing to which an annual appropriation of i860 pesos (£387.10 s. at 

 par) has been made, to which [:here will be added the proceeds of the silk 

 produced, woven and sold by the School. 



722 - The Organization of the Cuban Agricultural Experiment Station (Progress of Agri- 



ciiltiiral Sciaice in Cuba;. — Cr.\uxey J. T. (Director of the Cuban Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station). Modern Cuba, Vol. 5 (S), Xo. 2, pp. 2^^-46, Ha\ana, Feb , 1016. 



The Cuban Agriculttiral Experiment Station was established at Santiago 

 de las Veges in 1904 by the first President of the Republic of Cuba. 



The Station is di\aded into Departments, each with its chief, assistants, 

 and necessary laboratory and ether facihties, as follows. 



1) Agriculture. — To this Department is given the experimental work 

 with the more important crops, such as sugar cane, tobacco, com and the 

 various crops used for cattle feed, and green manuring. 



2) Horticulture. — This has charge of the growing cf fruits and ve- 

 getables, and the care of the grounds. 



3) Botany. — This Department has gathered and cares for an her- 

 barium of Cuban plants, and ha? charge of the study of forest trees, their 

 distribution and utilization, vegetable fibres, medicinal plants, etc. 



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