62 KKrORT OF OFFICE OK KXl'EHIMENT STATIONS. 



ExjKMiinciit StjitioM (Kn<rlisli mikI Simiiish editions), li reports, 4 

 Fiii-mcrs' Bulletins (inchKliiiji; "2 innnlx'js of the <<uhs(»rios K.\|)(M-ini(*iit 

 Station Work). 'A circulai-s, and 4 articles for the Yearbook of tlie 

 Dejjartinent. Two other numbers of the Kxperinient Stat ion lieeord 

 and 7 bulletins, eontaininj;- 1.027 paj^es, were prepared and submitted 

 for publication durin«r the year. The policy of reprinting'' separates 

 t)f indi\idual articles i-ontnined in lar^i'r repoits lias been continued 

 with the same satisfactory results as heretofore. Ki<,^hty-one such 

 separates, a«i\u;re«^atin<^ !i,()74 pae-es, have been I'eprinted in editions 

 of \ arying size to meet the actual demand for the articles. Several 

 docunuMits formerly printed separately by C'onj^ress were coml>ined 

 in the Ammal Re])ort of the Oflice of Kxpei'iment Stations, as was 

 don(> last year. 



Kxjii'i'liiient Station Record^ ]'<>l. XI\\ pj^- -?^6'7. — This contains 

 abstracts of 377 l)ulletins and 52 reports of the experiment stations in 

 the United States, 176 publications of the Department of Agriculture, 

 and numerous i-eports of foreign investigations. The total num])erof 

 abstracts is 4,020, classified as follows : Chemistry, 230; botan}'^, 177; 

 fermentation and bacteriolog}^ 4i>; zoology, 51; meteorology and cli- 

 matology, 102; air, water, and soils, 1S3; fertilizers, 184; tield crops, 

 344; horticulture, 4(i3: forestry, 199; seeds and weeds, 73; diseases of 

 plants, 371; entomology, 371; foods and nutrition, 257; animal produc- 

 tion, 344; dairy farming and dairying, 208; veterinary- science and prac- 

 tice, 670; technology, 27; agricultural engineering, 158; statistics and 

 nii.scellaneous. 159. 



This volume contains condensed accounts of the convention of the 

 Association of Official Agricultural C'hemists, 1902; International Con- 

 ference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization, convention of the Asso- 

 ciation of AnuM'ican Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 

 and the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science as regards agricultural science; a description of the new l)uild- 

 ings at the New Hampshire and Missouri agricultural colleges, and an 

 article on Values in Science, by W. H. Jordan. The following topics 

 are discussed in the editorials; Increased funds for station maintenance; 

 education of the American farmer; Royal Society's catalogue of scien- 

 tific papers; fiftieth anniversarj- of the first State experiment station; 

 Prof. A. Petermann, founder of the experiment station s3"stem of Bel- 

 gium; Jacob Richards Dodge, agricidtural statistician; Virchow's serv- 

 ice to agriculture, progress in plant Itreeding; Dr. Ro])ert C. Kedzie, 

 a pioneer in agricultural science; new yearbook of the Russian experi- 

 ment stations; overworking among experiment station men; need of 

 extending the scope of station operations; some factors in research 

 work; P. P. Deherain, deceased; agricultural experimentation in the 

 Philipj)ine Islands; the agricultural appropriation act, 1903-4; the De- 

 partment publications; the soil survey" in 1903; school garden at the 

 Department of Agriculture; need of experiments with horses; an index 



