EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. IX. 



No. 12. 



The present number completes the ninth volume of the Eecord. The 

 character and extent of the work in this and the preceding volume is 

 indicated by the following table: 



Station reports 



Station bulletins 



Publications of United States Department of Agriculture 



Foreign articles 



Total number of articles 



Classified as follows : 



Chemistry 



Botany 



Fermentation and bacteriology 



Zoology 



Meteorology 



Water and soils 



Fertilizers 



Field crops 



Horticulture 



Forestry 



Seeds and weeds 



Diseases of plants 



Entomology 



Foods and animal production 



Dairy farming and dairying 



Veterinary science 



Technology 



Agricultural engineering 



Statistics 



The abstracts in this volume occupy 770 pages, and required iu their 

 preparation the reviewing of 50,569 pages in the original publications. 

 In addition to this the volume contains 2,471 titles (mostly foreign), 

 not abstracted; 11 editorials, occupying 30 pages; 8 special articles, 

 occupying 136 pages, and 93 station notes, occupying 11 pages. 



As in previous volumes the subject-index has been made in sufficient 

 detail to serve as a fairly complete guide to the contents of the publi- 

 cations abstracted. 



The review of the literature of agricultural science made in this 

 volume of the Eecord is more complete than heretofore. Especial 

 attention has been given of late to extending the range of the abstracts 

 in a number of subjects, and especially in veterinary science. The 

 Eussian and Italian reports of agricultural investigations have also 

 been more thoroughly reviewed. The task of collecting and abstract- 

 ing the books, periodicals, and miscellaneous publications in which the 



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