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Organization Lists of the Agricnltural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations in the United States, with a List of Agricnltural Exj)eriment 

 Stations in Foreign Countries (Bulletin No. 74, pp. 121), contains a 

 list of the officers of the Association of Agricnltural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations and of the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists; a list of institutions having courses in agriculture in the 

 United States, with courses of study and boards of instruction; a list 

 of experiment stations in the United States, with governing boards 

 and station staffs; a list of exiDeriment stations in fiftj'-seven foreign 

 countries, with their location and directors; a list,of station publica- 

 tions received by the Office of Experiment Stations during 1899; fed- 

 eral legislation affecting agricultural colleges and experiment stations; 

 and regulations and rulings of the Federal Departments affecting the 

 stations. 



Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Associa- 

 tion of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, held 

 at San Francisco, Cal., July 5-7, 1899 (Bulletin Xo. 76, pp. 112), con- 

 tains, in addition to the proceedings of the convention, papers, 

 addresses, and reports on a number of subjects of interest to students 

 and investigators in agricultural science. The stenographic report 

 of these proceedings was made under the supervision of this Office, 

 and the proceedings were edited lor publication by the Director and 

 Mr. W. H. Beal, of this Office, and the chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee of the association. 



The Digestibility of American Feeding Stuffs (Bulletin No. 77, pp. 

 100), prepared by Whitman H. Jordan, director, and Frank H. Hall, 

 librarian, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 summarizes the results of experiments made at the experiment stations 

 in the United States up to the close of 1898 on the digestibility of 

 feeding stuffs by farm animals. The bulletin not only gives the j)rin- 

 cipal data obtained in some 378 experiments, but also discusses the 

 process of digestion; the significance and practical value of digestion 

 coefficients; the methods, sources of error, and limitations of diges- 

 tion experiments as at present conducted; and the various factors 

 affecting digestibility. This compilation renders possible the general 

 use of reliable American coefficients of digestibility in the calculacion 

 of feeding rations for farm animals. 



Statistics of the Land-Grant Colleges and Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations in the United States for the Year ended .June 30, 1899 

 (Bulletin No. 78, pp. 39), shows the number of officers and students, 

 endowment, equipment, and revenue of the colleges, and the number of 

 officers, revenues, expenditures, lines of work, and number of publi- 

 cations of the stations. 



Farmers' Institutes (Bulletin No. 79, pi3. 34), by L. H. Bailey, pro- 

 fessor of horticulture at Cornell University, gives the history and 

 present status of farmers' institutes in the L^nited States and Canada. 

 This bulletin was issued in response to an increasing demand for infor- 

 mation regarding various means which have been adoi:»ted for extend- 

 ing our system of agricultural education to the actual tillers of the 

 soil. The origin and history of the movement are briefly discussed, 

 and the methods pursued in the different States and provinces are 

 described. A list of officers in charge of farmers' institutes in the 

 LTnited States is given. 



The Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States (Bulle- 

 tin No. 80, pp. 636), bj^ A. C. True and Y. A. Clark, prepared as a 

 part of the exhibit of the agricultural experiment stations in the 



