EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED 15Y 



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



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

 W. If. Beal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (inclnding methods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

 WALTER H. Evans, Pii. D. — Botany and Diseases <>f Plants. 

 C. 1'. Langworthy, I'ii. D. — Foods and Animal Production. 



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

 E. 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. 



Feeding stuffs control 1 



Metabolism in calves 101 



The constitution of fat globules 102 



Education and research in Russia 201 



Some new discoveries on the ripening of cheese 205 



Distinction between agricultural college and experiment station work 301 



Agriculture in Alaska 101 



Studies on the influence of climate on crops 501 



Some unfortunate tendencies in station work 601 



Statistics of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts and the experiment ■ 



stations "01 



The new building of the College of Agriculture of the Ohio State University. 801 



Government investigations in Alaska 803 



Agricultural appropriation bill t 901 



Metabolism experiments in some of their relations to the nutrition of man and 



domestic auimals 1001 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



Agricultural associations in Belgium, P. de Vuyst 3 



The aims and tendencies of the German agricultural experiment stations, 



M. Maercker 103,207 



Eleventh annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, W. H. Beal 303 



The convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1897, W. 



H. Beal 401 



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