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ment stations, notably the station for plant culture at Briinn, a sta- 

 tion for investigations in plant and animal production at Otterbach, 

 and an agricultural physiological station with divisions of chemistry, 

 phj^siology, and bacteriology at Prague. In Hungarj^ an experiment 

 station for wines was established last year at Fiume. 



France has established an oenological station at Toulouse and a 

 colonial garden at Nogent-sur-Marne. The latter will have adminis- 

 trative control over French colonial stations and botanic gardens, and 

 will furnish these institutions with seeds and plants. 



In Germany five years of successful work at the Lauchstadt Experi- 

 mental Farm, which is connected with the experiment station at Halle, 

 under the direction of Dr. Max Maercker, have given so much evi- 

 dence of the value of experimental farms in connection with experi- 

 ment stations that there is a movement in that country toward the 

 extension of the so-called "American system" of field experiments 

 conducted on a large scale and in a more practical way than has 

 hitherto been customary at experiment stations there. 



A department of agriculture, with a small staff of experts, has been 

 organized at Bangalore by the government of Mysore, India. 



In the West Indies and South America, also, the claims of agricul- 

 tural education and research have received a large share of attention. 

 Meetings in Barbados have shown great interest in agricultural edu- 

 cation, and in the course of the year three new exi^eriment stations 

 have been established at Montserrat and one at Tortola. The Boliv- 

 ian Government has established an agricultural college at Cocha- 

 bamba and an agricultural school for Indians at Umala. Brazil has 

 recently established a botanical garden and experimental demonstra- 

 tion field at San Vicente, and the Argentine Republic has decided to 

 establish four experiment stations on the same general plan as those 

 in the United States. 



Publications of the Office. 



During the year the Office issued 52 documents, aggregating 3,843 

 pages. These include 14 numbers of the Experiment Station Record, 

 with detailed index, 18 bulletins, 5 farmers' bulletins, 1 report, 2 Con- 

 gressional documents, 3 circulars, 3 articles for the Yearbook of the 

 Department, and 6 special articles published as separates. 



experiment station record. 



General editorial management of the Record has been intrusted to 

 the assistant director, Dr. E. W. Allen, during the past year, as here- 

 tofore, and he has also continued to act as chairman of the abstract 

 committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 

 Volume 12 of the Record was comj)leted, and the preliminary work on 

 tlie combined index to the first 12 volumes was accomplished. Even 

 with the condensation which has been adopted in this combined 

 index, it includes upward of 100,000 separate entries. The combin- 

 ing of these so as to bring the related references together under suit- 

 able general entries, in order to make it a practical working index, 

 remains to be done. It is hoped that the index may be made ready 

 for the printer during the coming year. 



The Experiment Station Record has a value for two purposes, (1) 

 as a record of current investigation on agricultural science, and 

 (2) as an annotated bibliography of recent work. Its value, with its 



