EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



A. C. TJRUE, Ph. ]>., Director, 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., Assistant Director— Chemistry, Dairy Farming, aucl Dairying. 

 AY. H. Beal — Meteorology. Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), 



and Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

 C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. — Foods and Animal Production. 

 E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 

 J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



The reading course as a factor in agricultural education 1 



Agricultural experiment stations in Japan 101 



Irrigation investigations 201 



An Egyptian school of agriculture 202 



The late Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevaut 301 



National Society of Agriculture in Egypt 303 



The late Senator Justin S. Morrill 501 



Experiment-station movement in Russia 601 



Present status of the experiment stations in Russia 60J 



Agricultural experiment station in Alaska 701 



Agricultural appropriation act 1899-1900 801 



Irrigation investigations of the Department of Agriculture 901 



Statistics of land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations, 1808. .. 1003 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



Scandinavian seed-control stations, F. W. Woll 4 



Physical and meteorological researches, principally on solar rays, made at the 

 station of agricultural climatology at the observatory of Juvisy, Camille 



Flammarion 103,203 



Official methods of analysis of fertilizers and feeding stuffs adopted by the 

 Belgian State laboratories and the agricultural experiment stations of 



Holland 304 



Biological and dairy building of New York State Experiment Station 401 



Convention of Association ot Official Agricultural Chemists, 1898, W. If. Beal. 504 

 Twelfth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and K.xperimeut Stations, W. I ! . Beal 704 



Investigations on the metabolism of milch cows, ( >scar Hagemaun 803, 903 



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