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The governmental experivtient stations are the following : 



(1) The agricultural chemical experiment station at Vienna. — This 

 was established in ISfiO. Its work inclndes scientific researches; anal- 

 yses of fertilizers, feeding stnUs, and other technical products ; and the 

 giving of information by lectures, consultations, and correspondence. 

 The work of research has to do mainly with the study of ^he laws of 

 nutrition of animals and plants, the values of foods and fertilizers, the 

 culture of plants, and methods of inquiry. The working force consists 

 of a director, five assistants, and two helpers. The station has feeding 

 stalls and a Pettenkofer's respiration apparatus. It has no land, but 

 utilizes very satisfactorily the land and assistance of farmers in different 

 places for experiments. The analyses of fertilizers, feeding stuff's, pro- 

 ducts of the dairy, sugar, alcohol and other commercial products, water, 

 ores, etc., are in large part paid for by the parties in whose interest 

 they are made. The number of these paid analyses increased from 81 

 in 1877 to 12,180 in 1889, the corresponding receipts being $95 in 1877 

 and $9,890in 1889. The expenditures of the station in 1889 were $11,G00. 

 The station has been represented in numerous agricultural expositions 

 in Austria and other countries. The details of its organization and work 

 and the indications of its steady and healthy growth in usefulness and 

 public esteem are very interesting. 



(2) The chemical-physiological experiment station for icine and fruit 

 culture at Klosterneuburg was established in 1870. This station 

 conducts abstract researches, more immediately practical experiments, 

 and analyses and tests of products in the interests of the industries 

 it represents. These include chemical, microscopical, and other 

 investigations on wine, yeast, the by-products of wine manufacture, the 

 adulteration of wine, vineyard soils and fertilizers, and the diseases of 

 grapes aud other fruits. In 1889 the station received about $1,500 for 

 investigations and analyses made for private individuals. 



(3) The experiment station for silk and wine culture at Gorz, estab- 

 lished in 1808, was the first Grovernment experiment station in Austria. 

 An important part of its work consists of investigations with reference 

 to the conditions essential to the successful production of silk cocoons, 

 and the improvement of breeds of silk-worms. The benefit to the 

 silk industry has been very great. In wine culture its operations, 

 which begun in 1879, are along the same general lines as those at Klos- 

 terneuburg. Investigations in other brancEes of agricultural science are 

 carried on. A large number of chemical and miscroscopical examinations 

 are made for private individuals. An interesting feature of the station's 

 activity is the giving of annual or biennial courses of lectures, with 

 l)ractical demonstrations, in wine, and especially in silk culture to peo- 

 ple engaged iu those industries. These courses have been in the Italian 

 and Slavonic languages. The courses in silk culture have been attended 

 by 494 men and 04 women, while 89 persons have attended those on 

 wine and fruit culture. 



