516 EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN PRUSSIA. 


ascertaining which varieties of apples are specially suited for 
export, prizes were offered in 1899 by the New Zealand 
Department of Agriculture for exhibits of this fruit, which 
were stored in cold chambers, and the awards made after 
examination of the apples three months later. The judges 
considered the experiment to be one of great value, and that 
it demonstrated the possibility of keeping apples by a system 
of cold storage for a considerable period. 
[Report of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, 19Co. | 

The total number of experiment stations in Prussia in 
1898 was 33, including one maintained 
ree aa by the German Agricultural Society ; 
. Prussia. one chemical laboratory belonging to 
the Union of the Beet Sugar Trade; one 
station belonging to the Royal Pomological Institute; and 
one Institute for Industrial Bacteriology. The remainder - 
included 15 general experiment stations, and 7 devoted 
especially to seed testing, 4 to experiments in relation to. 
dairying, 2 to experiments in relation to plants, etc., and one 
to the improvement of moor andbog land. ‘The totalincome 
of these 28 stations amounted in 1898 to £41,396, which was. 
made up by Government grants amounting to £10,421; 
provincial grants to £3,182; grants from agricultural 
societies of £1,695 ; whilst the income from other source 
‘amounted to £26,097. The fifteen experiment stations 
devoted to general investigations accounted for over two- 
thirds of the above total, their income amounting to £ 27,276;. 
and the sum accorded to them by the State to £5,360. 
{Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbticher App. T1,, 1900.] 

His Majesty's Consul at Naples reports that it has been 
decided by the Italian Minister of War 
Demand for that all captains of infantry of more than 
Army Horses in . : : : 
Italy. four years’ service shall in future be 
mounted. This decision has an impor- 
tant bearing on the horse trade in Great Britain, and espe-. 
