The process of cultivation of snap bean was taken of a photograph with a video camera. Three following systems were constructed by using the video photograph, and "MS-WINDOWS Ver.3.1" and multimedia operation systems ("MS-VIDEO FOR WINDOWS" AND "MS-SOUND SYSTEM").
1) The first system, "Half forcing culture method of snap bean", was arranged as an experimental report. Animation and still pictures were embedded and pasted into the word processors ("Write" and "Amipro"). This system was composed of two animations, eight still pictures, a sound object, a figure, and two tables. Two animation files were captured with "MS-VIDEO FOR WINDOWS" and embedded by OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) function of "Write" and "Amipro". As for eight still pictures, after some video pictures had been converted into JPEG form by using "Video Capture Board" (Canopus Photopaq-98, Canopus Videopaq-98), the JPEG files were displayed on "Power View" and then stored into the word processor files through the clipboard.
2) The second system, "Variety information of Snap Bean", was a simple data base, in which data were stored in "Card file" annexed to "MS-WINDOWS" as an accessory. Two files of animation and still pictures were captured into this data base system. The plant types of eight varieties of snap bean were linked and embedded as the animation pictures. The pod forms of ten varieties were pasted as the still pictures.
3) The last system, "Seedling information of Snap Bean grown in cell pots" was produced, which displays still pictures one after another. In this system, video pictures were converted into the JPEG form, and thirty JPEG files of the still pictures were made in total. The size of them was 94KB in the maximum, 40KB in the minimum, and 59KB on the average.
The characteristics of these systems were discussed from the viewpoint of utilization of image and sound in a crop-culture information system. Animations, still pictures, sounds and diagrams could be easily captured into the system without any handling trouble, using the software mentioned above. A harddisk driver of 500MB or more in size was necessary to make use of these systems. If a network system with such mutiple objects is constructed, users (ex. farmers) can easily obtain much information with few mistakes at any time by a personal computer.

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We studied a method of displaying characters and images by on-line and developed the NAPLPS image communication program as a way of improving data communication. This program enabled both characters and images to be displayed in a network environment where only characters had been able to be displayed.
Moreover, as a result of our study on simplifying NAPLPS image creation, we developed the program for drawing daily nationwide meteorological value distribution maps and mesh maps of various altitude values by inputting numerical data of meteorological data and digital national land information.
In addition, we discussed techniques of simply drawing various kinds of graphs for NAPLPS using currently available commercial software.

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This system program was developed in order to establish a rational and scientific animal feeding, in cooperation with the Fukuoka Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Policy Division and the extension organizations in Fukuoka. This system was also developed for dairy farmers who have progressive ideas for analyzing the milk production techniques and the financial management by the use of a personal computer, but it might be available for their farming under the cooperation of extension workers. The system program has excellent characters as follows.
1) It is composed of four main programs; dairy cattle management, ration evaluation, crop management and financial management.
2) The system was aimed at dairy farming which had less than 250 cows and was in practice for dairy herd improvement.
3) Individual programs included in the suite operate independently from each other, but they are linked together so that data has to be entered only once.
4) A NEC type PC-9801VM2 microcomputer (640KB) was used in the present study.

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