EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



EDITED BY 



A. C. TRUE, Ph. D., Director, 



AND 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Farniiug, and Dairying. 

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



Agricultural Engineering. 

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

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



F. C. Kenyon, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 



J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 



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

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Hungarian National Millennium Exposition I 



Experiment station in German East Africa 1 



Experiments on the ^physiology of cultivated plants 2 



The Second International Congress of Applied Chemistry 95 



Suggestions regarding the improvement of station publications 177 



The factor for protein in foods and feeding stuffs 269 



European experiment stations 355 



A suggestion to agricultural investigators drawn from the scienceof economics. 445 



The Association of German Experiment Stations 446 



Report to Congress on the work and expenditures of the experiment stations. 539 



The nitrogen-free extract of feeding stufl's 639 



Emil von Wolff and Georges Ville 739 



Agricultural appropriation bill 839 



Important investigations on the preservation and management of barnyard 



manure 840 



Effect of food upon the composition of milk 939 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



The physiological role of water in plants, E. Gain 3 



The formation of fat in the animal body, Selik Soskin 179 



The Convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1896, W. H. 



Beal 272 



Dairy work at the experiment stations, E. W. Allen 359 



The ninth annual convention of the Association of German Agricultural 



Experiment Stations, 1896, Oliver L. Fassig 447 



Tenth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, W. H. Beal 541 



Nitrogen-free extract of plants and feeding stuffs, B. Tollens 641 



A review of publications on agricultural 1)otany issued in France during 1896, 



E. Gain 841,940 



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