i32 United States Department of Agriculture, [may, 



seeds with certain guarantees of purity and germination based 

 on the results of analytical tests made at the station of samples 

 submitted by them, and agree to accept the results of examina- 

 tions made at the station of samples taken by the buyers from 

 the goods sold as settling any question which may arise 

 after delivery. The quality of seeds in bulk is also certified 

 by drawing samples on the seedsman's premises, and furnishing 

 tags to be attached to the sacks giving the results of the 

 examination. 



The agricultural experimental station at Gorz was founded 

 in 1869 for the purpose of assisting the silk industry, but in 

 1891 its objects were extended so as to include agriculture 

 generally, with special reference to the two principal branches 

 in the southern provinces of Austria, viz., the breeding of silk- 

 worms and the production of silk, and also the cultivation of the 

 vine. The similar institution at Spalato is, in the same way, 

 intended to aid agriculture in Dalmatia, but courses for 

 instruction are also held there. 



The work of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 though in some degree administrative, is primarily of an 

 experimental and scientific nature, 



The United States directly designed for the encouragement 

 Department and advancement of the agricultural 

 t)f Agriculture. industry in that country. Original in- 

 vestigation into all questions affecting 

 farming may perhaps be said to be the guiding principle on 

 which the work of the department is conducted. This aspect 

 of its duties has been increasingly developed of recent years, 

 and in his Annual Report for 1907, Mr. James Wilson, the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, points out that fundamentally the 

 work of the department is concerned with the production of 

 wealth, as, for example, by increasing the yield of crops by 

 plant breeding ; with the preservation of wealth, as by sup- 

 pressing insect and fungus pests ; and with the welfare of the 

 industry, as by promoting co-operative selling or by giving 

 to the public information of the size of a crop in order that 

 .demand may be fairly adjusted to supply. 



It is interesting to notice that an attempt seems to have 

 Jbeen made to express in money the value of the work of the 



