718 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



It will be noticed that tlie salaries and expenses as assistants super- 

 intending the cooperative feeding experiments alone amount to nearly 

 $10,000. The budget for the butter exhibitions during 1894 was 

 s;5l',000, of which amount about $28,000 was for butter; $25,600 was 

 realized from the sale of the butter, making a loss of $6,500, which 

 was nearly covered by the special annual appropriation of 24,000 crowns 

 ($6,432). Beginning April, 1895, this appropriation was increased to 

 30,000 crowns ($8,108) per annum. 



The chemical department (fig. 6) is in charge of Prof. Dr. V. Storch, 

 and the veterinary-bacteriological department of Prof. Dr. B. L. F. 

 Bang. The regular staff of the station consists of a director, chemist, 

 5 assistant chemists, veterinarian, assistant veterinarian, animal physi- 

 ologist, superintendent and 4 assistants connected with cooperative ex- 

 periments, and bookkeeper, a total of 16 officers. No chemical control 



Fig. 6. — Chemical Department, Experiment Station at Copenhagen, Denmark. 



work or regular lecture work is done by any of the staff, except the 

 veterinarian, animal physiologist, and one of the assistant chemists, 

 who are also teachers at the Boyal Veterinary and Agricultural College. 



Abstracts of work done at the station have been given from time to 

 time in the Becord. 1 



Experiment Station at Tystofte. — The State maintains an experiment 

 station in plant culture located at Tystofte (near Skjelskor, Seeland), 

 with branch stations at Askov, Vester Hassing, and Lyngby. A vast 

 amount of work is done at these stations and at farms cooperating 

 with them in the line of variety tests with cereals, legumes, and roots; 

 experiments as to proper methods of seeding and plowing, kybridiza- 



1 E. S. R., 4, p. 601 ; 5, p. 721 ; 6, pp. 585, 657; 7, pp. 242, 253, 254; 8, p. 172. 



