EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. 1)., Assi.-<tinit Dlrertur. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistr}', Dairy Farminji, ami Dairying — Tlie Editor and IL W. Laavson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and AgrieuUurai 



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the coojieration of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



Increased funds for station maintenance 1 



Education of the American farmer 3 



Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers 4 



Fiftieth anniversary of the first State experiment station 101 



Prof. A. Petermann, founder of experiment station system of Belgium 103 



Jacob Richards Dodge, agricultural statistician 104 



Virchow's service to agriculture 105 



Progress in plant breeding 205 



Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, a pioneer in agricultural science 309 



New yearbook of the Russian experiment stations 311 



Overworking among experiment station men 413 



Need of extending the scope of station operations 415 



Some factors in research work - - 517 



P. P. Deherain, deceased 519 



Agricultural experimentation in the Philippine Islands 621 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1903-4 725 



The Department publications 726 



The soil survey in 1903 727 



School garden at the Department of Agriculture * 728 



Need of exj^eriments with horses 829 



An index catalogue for agricultural libraries - - - 830 



An index of scientific periodicals 831 



Memoir of the National Institute of Agriculture at Paris - - 832 



Progress of secondary education in agriculture 933 



The exhibit of the land-grant colleges and the experiment stations at St. Louis. 1037 



Conclusion of volume fourteen 1041 



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