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Government Stock Farm and Cattle Breeding Station. — As for raising livestock, there are two 

 Government stock farms and one branch farm, one cattle breeding station, and one institute 

 for the infections diseases of animals. These are all under the direct control of the Department 

 of Agriculture and Commerce. Besides them, there are seven local stock breeding farms. 



Stallion Stud and Stallion Depot. — The affairs relating to breeding horses and improving their 

 stock are entrusted with the Bureau of Horse Administration of the Military Department, and 

 for this purpose, three stallion studs, one stallion rearing station and fifteen other farms are main- 

 tained, where, besides their own business, an extensive study of the horse is conducted. 



Miscellaneous. — Besides the above-named ones, agricultural research is carried on in experi- 

 mental farms and laboratories of the Agricultural Colleges and schools. 



III. EDUCATIONAL ORGANS OF AGRICULTURE. 



Higher Organs. — Educational organs of agriculture are mostly under the control of the Depart- 

 ment of Education. The highest organs are the Imperial Universities, whose two agricultural 

 colleges are found in Tokyo and Supporo, Hokkaido. Next to the university, come the practical 

 courses of the above named colleges, higher agricultural and forestry schools in Morioka and 

 Kagoshima, higher sericulture and filatural schools in Tokyo and Ueda, Nagano-Ken, Kyoto Higher 

 Sericultural School, the Institute for the Training of Teachers of Agriculture, which is attached to the 

 Tokyo Agricultural College^ the private Tokyo Agricultural College and Chiba Horticultural School. 



