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superintendents of gardens, grounds, and buildings, apiarists; vege- 

 table, plant, and animal pathologists; herdsmen, poultry men, etc. 



Three hundred and twenty -five station officers do more or less teach- 

 ing in the colleges with which the stations are connected. 



The activity and success of the stations in bringing the results of 

 their work before the public continue unabated. During the year 

 they published 445 annual reports and bulletins, which are many more 

 than are required by the Hatch Act. These were supplied to over 

 half a million addresses on the regular mailing lists. A larger number 

 of stations than formerly supplemented their regular publications with 

 more or less frequent issues of press bulletins, and most of the stations 

 report a large and constantly increasing correspondence with farmers 

 on a wide variety of topics. 



FOREIGN EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Instances of governmental activity for the advancement of agricul- 

 ture in other countries are numerous, both in the Old World and the 

 New. 



The Russian Department of Agriculture and Imperial Domains has 

 inaugurated a system of commissioners of agriculture who will cor- 

 respond in a general way to our commissioners of agriculture or to 

 our secretaries of State boards of agriculture. Each commissioner's ] 

 office will have connected with it a corps of agricultural specialists, j 

 who will work among the landowners and peasants. The Russian 

 Department of Agriculture and Imperial Domains is also displaying 

 considerable activity in its soil and forestry investigations and in the 

 establishment of stations for the investigation of special subjects, such 

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



In Australia the Victoria Department of Agriculture is undergoing 

 reorganization. The Victoria Ro3^al Commission on Technical Educa- 

 tion has brought 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 Education Committee 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 Mr. John S. Remington has established the Aynsome 

 Experiment Station at Lancashire, a private institution. 



The Austrian Government has recently established several experi- J 

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



