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ing amount of agricultural literature reviewed. During the last three 

 years the number of pages reviewed has more than doubled. (In 

 Volume X 57,230 pages, and in Volume XIII, 115,427.) The abstract 

 committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, which 

 previousl}^ cooperated with this Office in the preparation of abstracts 

 on methods of agricultural analysis, has been discontinued, and this 

 work has been attended to by the editorial staff of the Office. 



The thirteenth volume of the Record comprises 931 pages devoted 

 to abstracts, 58 to editorials, (37 to special articles, and 56 to notes, 

 which, Mitli name and subject indexes, makes a volume of over 1,200 

 pages. It contains abstracts of 378 bulletins and 59 reports of experi- 

 ment stations in the United States, 205 publications of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and 1,555 reports of foreign investigations. The 

 total number of abstracts is 2,800, and the total number of pages in 

 the publications abstracted is 115,127. In addition, briefer reference 

 is made to nearly 1,500 other articles which did not seem to call for 

 extended notice. The total number of abstracts and titles together 

 is 4,290, classified as follows: Chemistry, 326; botany, 182; fermen- 

 tation and bacteriology, 47 ; zoology, 4 7 ; meteorology and climatology, 

 152; air, Avater, and soils, 127; fertilizers, 184; field crops, 475; hor- 

 ticulture, 486; forestry, 100; seeds and weeds, 82; diseases of plants, 

 291; entomology, 342;*^ foods and nutrition, 252; animal production, 

 264; dairy farmiug and dairying, 264; veterinary science and prac- 

 tice, 385; technology, 24; agricultural engineering, 101; statistics and 

 miscellaneous, 159. 



This volume also contains special articles as follows: "Agricultural 

 experiment stations of Hungary;" "The ash constituents of plants, 

 their estimation and their importance to agricultural chemistry and 

 agriculture," by B. Tollens, published in two parts; "New agricul- 

 tural building "^at Purdue University;" and "The station for i^lant 

 breeding at Svalof, Sweden," by D. G. Fairchild. Condensed accounts 

 of the proceedings of the eighteenth annual convention of the Associa- 

 tion of Official AgriculturarChemists and of the fifteenth annual con- 

 vention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations are included. The following topics are dis- 

 cussed in the editorials: Investigations of poisonous plants; the 

 Hungarian experiment station system; statistics of agricultural col- 

 leges and experiment stations for 1900; need for investigation in 

 stock breeding; organization of the Bureau of Soils; the use of funds 

 for lease of collegeland grant; new agricultural Iniilding; Prof. Max 

 Maercker, deceased; a school of practical agriculture and horticul- 

 ture; farm practice in agricultural education; a graduate school of 

 agriculture; the new Bureau of Agriculture for the Philippine Islands; 

 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, deceased; agricultural education in Eng- 

 land under the county councils; William Le Roy Broun, deceased; 

 new aspects of agricultural education; the department of agricul- 

 ture for Ireland; a new experiment station in England; the agricul- 

 tural experiment stations of the world; cooperative fertilizer experi- 

 ments in Germany; " euphorimetry," or the art of measuring the 

 fertility of the soil; agricultural-meteorological observations in 

 Russia; the agricultural appropriation act, 1902-1903; J. Sterling- 

 Morton, third Secretary of Agriculture; cooperation in experimenta- 

 tion; progress of experiment stations abroad; meeting of farmers' 

 . institute workers at Washington; agricultural experiment stations 

 for Victoria, Australia; ijermanent location of Porto Rico station; 

 an enthusiastic view of American stations and colleges; biological 



