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JAPANESE RACING AT LOW EBB. New York. March 11. -They ale having the Same . perieace in Japaa with horse raciag thai New York has known in the last three years, only in their ease the government has had to st i in mat do something to keep up the standard of the h * -■ - of th natry. Tiiis has been the eoaaequeui the abolition of ran- track betting, according to Dr. S. Katauahima, professor of veterinary medlciee ii the College n Agriculture af the [naperial tJalversltj of T0U0, who is aow at the Hotel ImperiaL The aovemmeal two yeara ago decided to pr race track betting on moral ground-. The result has been that the attendance at meetiega aaa dwladled so that aowadaya it la Insignificant. Th • Emperor and other membera ol thi huperial family, in order to encourage the sport, have gone frequently in the past year to the races, but thai has not Berved to bring mui the people to a desirable extent. The result h:i- been thai the government has had to de-rote a lot of lime t" keeping up horse breeding, which, when races wen- popular, waa done to .1 large extoni bj private individuals. Dr. Kataushima is Making a trip irom I the woj 1 in the Interests •■! liis college ie part men t. Everj year the government detaches i" professors fr n the naiveralty and sends tbem 1 ■ Europe and !•• thin country t.i see whether they can pick up ■ nen In their particular fields. Dr. Katsnshima cam by the Trans-Siberian runway, and has been m Europe since the latter part of October. •Our veterinary department baa been establish 1 thirty iii-. the first bead of it i.eieu- an Englishman, Dr. MVBride, from the Cirei Agricultural College. lb- was succeeded bj ■ Ger man, and the latter I succeeded. I studied at onr college, and twentj yesri a-i 1 took • special course ■ r study In Berlin, w have shout hundred -indents in my department and graduate about twenty each year. n course there are many smaller veterinary colleges In the country. More than half of our graduates are eUt t,, the army. "Though I spent name time In Berlin. Switzerland, the Scandinavian penlnaula, Fr in e and England. I say thai I found ao far a- Internal reterinary medicine la concerned iIiti- was liule new to be learned, only the bacteriological part seem* to lime made anj advance. The Germans are unquea tionabi] ahead of the world In veteriuarj science. in this line England has become antluuated. "Every yeai we send tw three cummlasionerH to Europe 1.. select 1 large number ..1 xtalltona 11 .1 fam us stock. Moat "i tbem come from a famous farm la Hungary, and bobm from England 11 I France, Sometimes v- gei trotters from America. While these Importations are for the s|ie,j-..i ini proveaaanl "f onr military horses, at the tame time the benetl ahowa upon the seneral run of hordes in the count ry."
