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b}^ Bernard Dyer (Bulletin No. 106, pij. 189). These lectures sum- 

 marize the results of all observations and experiments made on 

 Rothamsted soils up to the time of the preparation of the lectures 

 in 1901, including" the results of the author's exhaustive studies on 

 the phosphoric acid and potash contents of the soils. 



Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion of Farmers' Institute Workers, held at Buffalo, N. Y., Septem- 

 ber 18 and 19, 1901, edited bj^ A. C. True and D. J. Crosby, for the 

 Office of Experiment Stations, and G. C. Creelman, for the association 

 (Bulletin No. 110, pp. 55). 



Organization Lists of the Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations in the United States, with a List of Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations in Foreign Countries (Bulletin No. Ill, pp. 130), contains 

 the staff of the Office of Experiment Stations and a list of the officers 

 of the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 

 of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists, of the Association of Veterinarians 

 of Experiment Stations, and of the American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers; a list of agricultural colleges and experiment sta- 

 tions in the United States, with governing boards, courses of study, 

 boards of instruction, station staffs, and a list of station publications 

 received bj^ the Office of Experiment Stations during 1901; a list of 

 experiment stations in 67 foreign countries, with their locations and 

 directors, and a list of their publications received by the Office of 

 Experiment Stations during 1901. The bulletin contains a complete 

 index of names. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations in Foreign Countries, by A. C. 

 True and D. J. Crosby (Bulletin No. 112, pp. 230). This bulletin 

 summarizes the available information regarding personnel, origin, 

 equijDment, income, and lines of work of about 720 agricultural 

 experiment stations and related institutions in some 46 foreign coun- 

 tries. The matter is arranged alphabetically by countries and cities. 



Statistics of the Land-Grant Colleges and Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations in the United States for the Year ended June 30, 1901 (Bul- 

 letin No. 114, 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, additions to equip- 

 ment during the year, and number of publications of the stations. 



Report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations for 

 1901, by A. C. True (Annual Reports, Department of Agriculture, pp. 

 175-233). 



Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations for the Year 

 ended June 30, 1901 (House Doc. No. 334, Fifty-seventh Congress, 

 first session, pp. 482, pis. 41). This includes a report on the work and 

 expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations in the United 

 States, with detailed reports of the special agents in charge of the 

 stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and accounts of the nutri- 

 tion and irrigation investigations, thus combining in one document 

 reports which heretofore have been x^ublished separately. 



Some Problems of the Rural Common Schools, by A. C. True (Year- 

 book of the Department of Agriculture, 1901, pp. 133-154, pi. 1, figs. 

 4), discusses the present needs of these schools and suggests various 

 means of improvement, including lengthening the school term, employ- 

 ing teachers in sj^mpathj^ Avith farm life and prepared to introduce the 

 study of agricultural subjects, consolidation of small, poorly equipped 

 schools in larger and better equipped schools, and development of the 

 school as an intellectual center of l!v^ community. 



