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experiment station at San Michele, in the Tyrol, This station makes 

 laboratory, field, pasture, vineyard, nursery, and orchard experimeutsj 

 investigates problems relating to the conservation and care of wines and 

 fruits ; exercises a control over fertilizers, seeds, and preparations of 

 rennet; and makes analyses for formers, for which a small fee ischarged, 

 unless the results are of general interest or the farmers too poor to bear 

 the expense. It receives $1,500 annually from the Government. The 

 other stations connected with agricultural schools are the seed-control 

 stations at Dublany in Galicia, at Kaaden in Bohemia (1877), and at 

 Neutitschein (1883) and Prerau (1884) in Moravia; the experiment 

 station for wine and fruit culture at Pareuzo in Istria (1875), the 

 agricultural chemical station at Neutitschein in Moravia (1886), and the 

 agricultural chemical station at Oberhermsdorf in Austrian Silesia. A 

 station for hop culture was established in 1890 in connection with the 

 school at Staresiolo in Galicia. The work of these stations is generally 

 done in part or wholly by teachers in the schools with which the 

 stations are connected. Stations are about to be established in con- 

 nection with other schools. 



Seven other agricultural schools make examinations of seeds, ferti- 

 lizers, soils, feeding stuff's, wines, sugar-beets, and factory products and 

 refuse, in some cases without charge, in others for small fees. 



The Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Experiment- 

 ing in Austria, organized in 1884, conducts co-operative field 

 experiments, in which members of the association in different parts of 

 Austria and Hungary participate. The entire expense is borne by 

 the experimenters, who even pay for the seeds and fertilizers furnished 

 by the association. 



With the present number of the Eecord a beginning is made in giving 

 brief accounts of European inquiry in lines in which our stations are 

 working. Extensive as is the work of experimental research in agri- 

 cultural science in the United States, in Europe it is more extensive, 

 and in many respects more thorough. Experiment stations have now 

 been in operation in Europe for more than 40 years. The number 

 of stations is large, their lines of operation are well defined, and their 

 investigations are well systematized. And besides the experiment 

 stations, the laboratories of universities and agricultural schools are 

 devoting the labor of many eminent men of science in Germany, France, 

 England, and the other countries of Europe to the study of the laws 

 which, operating in the air, the soil, the plant, and the animal, underlie 

 the practice of successful farming. It is interesting to see to how 

 large an extent the questions investigated there are the same as those 

 on which our stations are working, or involve the abstract principles 

 on whose solution the successful work of our stations depends. Meth- 

 ods of inquiry, too, are being elaborated in Europe much more thor- 

 oughly than in this country. 



