EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: K. W. ALLEN, Vu. D., Assistant Diredor. 



KDITOKIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and H. "\V. Lawsox. 

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



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Entomology and Veterinary Science — E. V. AVilc'<ix, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 AVith the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Deiiartment of Agriculture. 



EDITORIAL XOTES. 



Page. 



Investigations of poisonous plants 1 



The Hungarian experiment station system 3 



Statistics of agricultural colleges and experiment stations for 1900 101 



Need for investigation in stock breeding 201 



Organization of the Bureau of Soils 203 



The use of funds from lease of college land grants 204 



New agricultural building 205 



Prof. Max. INIaercker, deceased 206 



A school of practical agriculture and horticulture 301 



Farm practice in agricultural education 302 



A graduate school of agriculture 303 



The new Bureau of Agriculture for the Philippine Islands 304 



Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, deceased 401 



Agricultural education in England under the county councils 402 



William Le Roy Broun, deceased 501 



New aspects of agricultural education 502 



The department of agriculture for Ireland 503 



A new experiment station in England 505 



The agricultural experiment stations of the world 605 



Cooperative fertilizer experiments in Germany 705 



"Euphorimetry," or the art of measuring the fertility of the soil 707 



Agricultural-meteorological observations in Russia 708 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1902-3 807 



J. Sterling ^lorton, third Secretary of Agriculture 809 



Cooperation in experimentation 811 



Progress of experiment stations abroad 812 



fleeting of farmers' institute workers at Washington 907 



Agricultural experiment stations for Victoria, Australia 909 



Permanent location of Porto Rico Station 910 



An enthusiastic view of American stations and colleges 911 



Biological soil studies 1009 



A new departure in agricultural education 1011 



The early literature of agriculture 1 012 



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