96 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Report of the director, 1909, H. L. Russell (Wisconsiin Sta. BuJ. 193, pp. 

 52, figs. 6'). — This contains the organization list, a report of the work of the 

 station during the year, especially those phases dealing with administration, 

 research, publications, and extension work, brief summaries of the publications 

 of the year, lists of donations and exchanges, and a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. 



Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 1908 

 {U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Aniin. Indus. Rpt. 1908, pp. 502, pis. 11, figs. 7i).— This 

 contains a report of the Chief of the Bureau for the fiscal ye.ir ended June 

 30. 1908, numerous articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue, and a list of the 

 publications of the Bureau during lOOS. An appendix contains the rules and 

 regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to animal industry issued 

 in 1908. 



List of publications of the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Kingston, R. I., available for distribution March 1, 1910 ( Rhode Ishind 

 ma. Bui. 1.39. pp. ni-VII). 



A suggested revision of the terminology of agriculture, I^. C. Wooster 

 {Emporia, Kans., 1910, pp. 7). — The author proposes a reclassification of the 

 materials utilized by plants, dividing them into plant foods, plant crude foods 

 and food elements, and plant accessory foods, 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The nature of agricultural research, J. Hudig and U. J. Mansholt (Cul- 

 tura. 21 {1909), A'o. 2.10, pp. .322^.3.31; 22 (1910), Xos. 257, pp. 1-16; 258, pp. 

 J/9-63). — An extended discussion is presented of the purpose, methods, and 

 functions of exijerimentarion in agriculture with brief descriptions of the ex- 

 periment stations at Lauchstadt, Dikopshof, and Rothamsted, the American 

 and Danish experiment station systems, and the moor culture station at 

 Bremen. 



Report on the introduction of improvements into Indian agriculture 

 {Calcutta: Dcpt. Agr.. 1909, pp. 25). — This is a revision of a report of a com- 

 mittee of the Board of Agriculture of India, which was apijointed " to consider 

 and report on the best methods of bringing experimental work of proved value 

 to the notice of cultivators." The various extension agencies at work in the 

 various provinces of India are discussed, including the formation of local 

 agricultural associations and village agencies, the holding of local demonstra- 

 tions, tlie publication of leaflets and circulars and vernacular agricultural 

 .iournals, the utilization of the general vernacular press, the encouragement of 

 agricultural shows and exhibitions, the employment of itinerant instructors 

 and individual expert cultivators, the operation of seed farms and depots, the 

 management by improved methods of Court of Wards estates, colonization 

 with expert cultivators, and the training of sons of cultivators. 



The necessity of a thorough iniderstanding by experimentalists and extension 

 workers of local conditions is emphasized, and special stress is laid on concen- 

 trating work in comparatively small areas, winning the confidence of the natives, 

 and encouraging in them a spirit of inquiry. 



