FOREIGN EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 35 



station for investigations in plant and animal production atOtterbach, 

 and an agricultural physiological station, with divisions of chemistry, 

 physiology, and bacteriology, at Prague. In Hungary an experiment 

 station for the analysis and study of wines was established last year 

 at Fiune. 



France has established at Nogent-sur-Marne a colonial garden to 

 have administrative control over French colonial stations and botanic 

 gardens in different parts of the world and to furnish these institutions 

 with seeds and plants. During the year oenological stations have been 

 established at Toulouse and Beaune and an agricultural station at 

 Besancon. 



In Germany five years of successful work at the Lauchstadt Experi- 

 mental Farm, which is connected with the Agricultural Chemical 

 Experiment Station at Halle, has given so much evidence of the value 

 of experimental farms in connection with experiment stations that there 

 is a movement in that country toward the extension of the so-called 

 "American system" of field experiments, conducted on a large scale 

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

 country. Two new stations have been established during the year, a 

 flax-culture station at Sorau and a viticultural experiment station at 

 Weinsberg. 



In the West Indies and South America also the claims of agricultural 

 education and research have received much attention. The Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture 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 displayed. The Bolivian Government 

 has established an agricultural college at Cochabamba and an agricul- 

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

 botanical garden and experimental demonstration field at San Vicente, 

 and Argentina has decided to establish four experiment stations on the 

 same general plan as those in the United States. 



A review of the agricultural progress of the year would not be com- 

 plete without mention of the organization of a department of agricul- 

 ture, with a small staff of experts, at Bangalore by the government of 

 Mysore, India; the establishment of a dairy station at Gembloux, 

 Belgium; a veterinary pathological institute and animal vaccine insti- 

 tute at Christiania, Norway; and an irrigation experiment station at 

 Calgary, Canada. 



