CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



New features of Experiineut Station Record 1 



Farmers' bulletins 1 



The proper use of station funds 41 



The seventh annual convention of the Association of OfQcial A<i;ricultural 



Chemists 89 



The sugar-beet industry 93 



Report of Professor Wilckens, of Vienna, on the American stations 139 



Need of better methods in investigations of food and feeding stuffs 185 



The fourth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations 265 



The Association of Economic Entomologists 269 



Statistics of the agricultural ex]3eriment stations in the United States 309 



Institutions for agricultural education and research in Japan 310 



The publication of abstracts of the annual reports of the stations 313 



Agricultural experiment stations in Austria 385 



Abstracts in the Record from reports of European investigations 389 



Siibject classification of the table of contents of the Record.. 390 



The application of alcohol in the manufacture of sorghum sugar 469 



Veto of a bill to distribute the station funds in Alabama 470 



Financial statistics of the stations 471 



The appropriation bill for the United States Department of Agriculture 472 



Farm experiments 541 



Suggestions regarding the horticultural work of the stations 625 



Need of specialists at experiment stations 626 



The second volume of the Record 699 



Agricultural experiment stations in Holland 700 



ABSTRACTS OF STATION PUBLICATIONS. 



Ai.AR AM A College Station^: 



Bulletin No. 10 (new series), January, 1890 8 



11 (new series), February, 1890 8 



12 (new series), February, 1890 9 



13 (new series), March, 1890 4^ 



14 (new series), April, 1890 141 



15 (new series), April, 1890 143 



16 (new series), June, 1890 191 



17 (new series), July, 1890 193 



18 (new series), August, 1890 193 



19 (new series), October, 1890 270 



20 (new series), November. 1890 314 



21 (new series), December, 1890 547 



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