OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 43 



Experiment Station Record, Vol. XII, pp. 1189. — This contains 

 abstracts of 348 bulletins and 55 annual reports of experiment stations 

 in the United States, 158 publications of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and 1,675 reports of foreign investigations. The total number 

 of pages in these publications is 31,268. The total number of articles 

 abstracted is 3,271, classified as follows: Chemistry, 172; botany, 158; 

 fermentation and bacteriology, 38; zoology, 31; meteorology, 99; air, 

 water, and soils, 135; fertilizers, 139; field crops, 353; horticulture, 320; 

 forestry, 130; seeds and weeds, 80; diseases of plants, 248 ; entomology , 

 334; foods and animal production, 314; dairy farming and dairying, 

 181; veterinary science, 347; technology, 25; agricultural engineering, 

 56; statistics and miscellaneous, 121. 



Special articles were also published in this volume of the Record as 

 follows: Notes on horse feeding; New agricultural building at Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College; International congresses of horti- 

 culture, viticulture, and agriculture at Paris; New building for the 

 College of Agriculture at the University of Illinois, and Russian 

 soil investigations. 



There are condensed accounts of the Proceedings of the Fourteenth 

 Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, and of the Seventeenth Annual Conven- 

 tion of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1900; and, in 

 addition, editorial discussions of the following topics: The promotion of 

 agriculture in Russia, agricultural experiment stations for Hawaii and 

 Porto Rico, international congresses of agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions and of agricultural education at Paris, the late Sir John Bennet 

 Lawes, the influence of the Rothamsted experiment station, experi- 

 ment-station exhibits at the Paris Exposition, need of more perfect 

 organization of the experiment stations, differentiation of the investi- 

 gator from the teacher, some recent bibliographic helps, protection of 

 crops from hail, the scope and management of the veterinary work of 

 the experiment stations, investigation of soils in Russia, variety test- 

 ing at Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, cheese curing in the light of 

 the enzym theoiy, the agricultural appropriation act, experiment sta- 

 tion farms and the movement for their establishment in Germany, the 

 Hawaii experiment station, and Maxime Cornu, botanist, horticulturist, 

 and agriculturist. 



MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL BULLETINS. 



Bulletin 88, pp. 181. — Organization lists of the Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations in the United States, with a List of Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Stations in Foreign Countries. — This contains a list 

 of the officers of the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations and of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists; 

 a list of institutions having courses in agriculture in the United States, 



