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The bureau embraces the five sections of agricultural administration, arable land adjustment, agricul- 

 tural products, sericulture, and animal industry, each of which respectively deals with its own affairs, 

 relating to agricultural administration. There are still other organs under the direct control of the 

 Department of Agriculture and commerce, such as the agricultural experimental station, silk con- 

 ditioning house, sericultural institute, government stock farm, cattle breeding station, Anti 

 Kinder pest serum institute, and plant quarantine of^ce. A.s for the horse administration, there is 

 the Horse Administration Bureau, which is superintended by the Minister of Military Departmicnt. 



Local Organs of Agricultural Administration. — The local agricultural administration is superin- 

 tended by the Governor of Prefectures, and is directly entrusted with the Section of Agricultural 

 Affairs, or Section of Industry. Besides these two, there are agricultural experimental stations, 

 stock breeding farm, rice inspecting offices, sericultural inspecting ofifices and manufacturing offices 

 of reproductive silk-worm eggs. The business of each one of them is, of course, the encourage- 

 ment of their respective branches of agriculture. With reference to the administration of •' gun " 

 (county), several officials are engaged by the " guncho " (governor of the gun) for directing the 

 agricultural affairs of the lowest communes, the township and the village. 



11. ORGANS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH. 



- The Imperial Agricultural Experimental Station.— This institute is under the direct control 

 of the Agricultural and Commercial Department, and holds the highest position among all the 



