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by the State Department of Agriculture, most of which are 

 chemical and seed control stations. In addition there are 



10 agricultural chemical stations, maintained by societies, which 

 are in reality laboratories for analysis and control. Norway has 



1 1 stations, including several control stations, all, with one or 

 two exceptions, under the direct control of the Department of 

 Agriculture ; Denmark has io stations, several of them being 

 among the most liberally supported of the European stations. 



A feature of the system in Australia, which includes 34 

 institutions, is the State farms, of which there are 16 scattered 

 over the country, devoted for the most part to experiments and 

 demonstrations in farming, the improvement of live stock, and 

 similar work, but having no real scientific work connected with 

 them. 



In Japan there arc 15, including 9 branch stations; in 

 Switzerland a system of 10 stations, all under the control of 

 the Department of Agriculture, except 1 for brewing : and in 

 Spain 9 stations, 6 of which are oenological and 1 seri- 

 cultural. 



Agricultural Depression in Argentina. 



H.M. Consul at Rosario has reported to the Foreign 

 Office that there was much distress among agriculturists in 

 his district at the close of the year 1 901. The\- had sustained 

 a considerable loss by the wheat crop of 1900-01, and they 

 were threatened with a much heavier loss on the 1901-02 crop of 

 wheat, linseed, and maize. The cause is the prolonged periods of 

 drought, which caused a loss of the whole crop in some districts,, 

 and from 40 to 60 per cent, elsewhere. One of the Entre Rios 

 railway lines offered to provide seed to the farmers along its 

 route, on liberal terms, to enable them to meet the difficulties,, 

 and other lines were expected to assist in like manner. 



Climatic influences in recent years have caused several losses 

 to the grain crops, but the primitive methods employed by large 

 numbers of the farmers have undoubtedly contributed in a great 

 measure to the unsatisfactory results obtained by grain growers 

 in the Argentine Republic. The National Government has 



