EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, ami Dairying — The Editor and H. W. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and Agricul- 

 tural Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops— J. I. Schulte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



The mission of the farmers" institute ... 1 



Organization of farmers' institiites 3 



Introduction of agriculture at the Mount Hermon school _ 4 



September meetings of scientific bodies — National Irrigation Congress, 

 American Veterinary Medical Association, International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Dei'niography, American Pomological Society, and Society 



of Horticultural Science : 105 



Irrigation in Italy 109 



State aid of the experiment stations 209 



Need of increased funds for the stations 310 



Experiment station work in Alaska 213 



Farm mechanics as a department of agricultural instruction. 213 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1903 317 



The personnel of the Department of Agriculture 330 



The American Association meeting at St. Louis 421 



Rural economics at the St. Louis meeting 423 



Acquisition of the nitrogen of the air by calcium carbid 433 



Agricultural research and the Carnegie Institution 435 



Government aid to agriculture in Hungary 533 



Investigations on the flow of maple sap 536 



Work of the Bureau of Agriculture in the Philippines 633 



Experiment stations in the Philippines 634 



A card index to periodical literature on agricultural science 639 



Bimonthly list of experiment station publications 640 



A respiration calorimeter for farm animals 737 



Rural economics as a department of agricultural education 739 



Instruction in rural economics in European countries 741 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1904-5 839 



Inauguration of experiment station work in Cuba 843 



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