EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

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



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 and the Abstract 



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page 



The promotion of agriculture in Russia 1 



Agricultural experiment stations for Hawaii and Porto Rico 2 



International congresses of agricultural experiment stations and of agricul- 

 tural education at Paris 101 



The late Sir John Bennet Lawes 201 



The influence of the Rothamsted Experiment Station 203 



Experiment stations' exhibits at the Paris Exposition 301 



Need of more perfect organization of the experiment stations 401 



Differentiation of the investigator from the teacher . 403 



Some recent bibliographic helps 501 



Protection of crops from hail 502 



The scope and management of the veterinary work of the experiment stations. 601 



Investigation of soils in Russia 701 



Variety testing at Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm 703 



Cheese curing in the light of the enzyni theory 801 



The agricultural appropriation act 803 



Experiment-station farms, and the movement for their establishment in Ger- 

 many 901 



The Hawaii Experiment Station 1001 



Maxime Cornu, botanist, horticulturist, and agriculturist -. 1002 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



Notes on horse feeding, E. Lavalard 4 



New agricultural building at Kansas State Agricultural College 103 



International congresses of horticulture, viticulture, and agriculture at Paris, 



W. H. Evans, Ph. D 205 



Fourteenth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural 



Colleges and Experiment Stations, E. AV. Allen 404 



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