610 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



cultural experimentation in Russian Poland. From this it is learned that in 1876 a 

 chemical laboratory was established in the Warsaw Museum of Industry and Agri- 

 culture, and in 1880 a botanical section with a seed-testing station. In 1886 an agri- 

 cultural experiment station was founded in Sobieszyn through the generosity of Count 

 K. Kicki, who gave his whole fortune to the promotion of agriculture. The labo- 

 ratories were enlarged in 1892, the experimental fields rearranged, and a plant-breed- 

 ing garden laid out. 



This remained the only experiment station until a group of agriculturists in the 

 government of Plock established the agricultural experiment station of Chojnowo, 

 which was moved to Hruszczewo in 1904. In the same year representatives of the 

 sugar industry established a station in Grodzisk, which four years later was moved 

 to Jezowka. An experiment station for the brewing industry was started in Warsaw 

 in 1898. The following year the agriculturists of the government of Warsaw located 

 an experiment station at Kutno, to which an experimental field at Lenczyca was 

 added in 1902. An experimental field was also established under private auspices at 

 Chmilnik in 1902. Through the efforts of the Agricultural Society of Warsaw the 

 agricultural laboratory was opened in Warsaw in 1901, and in 1903 a station for the 

 testing of agricultural machinery and apparatus, and a station for plant protection 

 were established at the same place. An experimental field was also started at Piastnw 

 in the same year. 



The experiment stations and fields of Russian Poland, therefore, owe their origin 

 and support entirely to private enterprise, none of them receiving any aid from the 

 government. The directors of the stations formed a society in 1902 and adopted 

 uniform methods of analysis for soils, fertilizers, and seeds, which have been accepted 

 by the local fertilizer manufacturers and seed dealers. 



Experiment Stations in France. — The Minister of Agriculture in a recent report to 

 the President of the Republic calls attention to the inadequacy of the French system 

 of agricultural research as compared with similar institutions in Germany, Austria, 

 and the United States. The Minister has therefore appointed a committee on the 

 organization and improvement of agricultural investigation in agricultural experiment 

 stations and laboratories. This committee is composed of 65 members, including 

 officers of the Department of Agriculture, directors of agricultural schools, senators, 

 deputies, members of the National Agricultural Institute, and of the National Agri- 

 cultural Society, besides other men of note in the agricultural world. 



An entomological station has recently been established in connection with the 

 zoological laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences at Rennes, under the directorship of 

 F. Guitel. 



A New Station for Testing Agricultural Machinery. — The commission for testing 

 machinery connected with the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Hanover, 

 at its meeting May 12, 1905, resolved to enlarge its functions by the establishment of 

 a machine-testing station, to be in charge of Prof. Alwin Nachtweh. 



Prize for Work on the Value of Calcium Phosphate in Feeding. — The Mecklenburg 

 Patriotic Society has offered a prize of 1,500 marks (about S360) for a treatise upon 

 the question, Is the Feeding of Calcium Phosphate Advantageous? Experiments, 

 including digestion trials, are to be made with ruminants, pigs, and horses, and the 

 reputed effect of this material on the strength of the bones is to be studied. The 

 question as to whether the same results can not be secured with calcium carbonate is 

 also to receive attention. The competition for this prize closes September 15, 1908. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. — This association held its fifty- 

 fifth annual meeting at New Orleans, Louisiana, during the week beginning Decem- 

 ber 29, 1905. As usual, a number of affiliated societies met with the association. 

 The attendance was smaller than usual, there being but about 300 delegates and visitors 

 present. A large number of papers and addresses of popular and scientific interest 



