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Agricultural Scieuce iu the United States 



has made much more marked progress in the past year than 

 ever before. The Connecticut Experiment Station and the 

 Bussey Institution have published reports of high scientific 

 as well as practical value. The North Carolina Experiment 

 Station is actively at work. The Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College and the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture 

 have taken decided steps towards the establishment of exper- 

 iment stations. In a number of educational institutions, not- 

 ably Cornell University, the Michigan, New Hampshire, and 

 Maine agricultural colleges, and the University of Virginia, 

 experimental work has been active. The Vermont Agricult- 

 ural College has instituted an extensive series of field experi- 

 ments among the farmers of that state. A similar enterprise 

 undertaken by the American Agriculturist has led a large 

 number of farmers in various parts of the country to make 

 experiments with fertilizers on a common plan, but under dif- 

 ferent circumstances as to soil, crop, etc. Several state de- 

 partments and boards of agriculture, notably that of Georgia, 

 have likewise induced farmers to experiment largely. The 

 agricultural departments of Georgia and Virginia have both 

 published reports and other documents containing valuable 

 information and promising well for the agriculture of their 

 states. A number of private individuals, with the rest the 

 Sturtevant Brothers, of Framingham, Mass., have made and 

 continued interesting experiments on the growth of corn ; 

 and, finally, Professor Collier, Chemist of the Agricultural 

 Department at Washington, has undertaken some work in 

 agricultural chemistry in a way that can be made very use- 

 ful to the agriculture of the country. 



II. THE ATMOSPHERE AS RELATED TO VEGETABLE 



PRODUCTION. 



AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY. 



Dr. Lorenz, in a " Proposal for a System of Meteorological 

 Observations in Austria," classes the meteorological data 

 which interest agriculturists in four groups : 



1. A physiological group, having to do with the relations 

 of heat, moisture, precipitation, and barometric pressure to 



