2 g HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



This station has from the first done much work in im- 

 proving laboratory methods, operations, and apparatus. 

 Among the pieces of apparatus devised by the station workers 

 which have proved satisfactory are a fat extractor, a hydrogen 

 generator, gas dessicator, apparatus for drying in hydrogen, 

 aliquotimeter, apparatus for determining nitrogen by the 

 absolute and by the Kjeldahl methods, an oven for drying 

 large samples (e. g., maize stalks, coarse grasses, or other 

 forage plants), and apparatus for determining nitric acid (mod- 

 ification of Schulze-Tiemann apparatus). 



DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION. 



The station has issued 133 bulletins and 24 annual re- 

 ports. The publication of the annual report, not to exceed 400 

 pages, is done at State expense. It contains a full account 

 of all the work done by the station during the year and in- 

 cludes the matter published in bulletins. The edition pub- 

 lished at public expense is now limited by law to 7,000 copies. 

 The station has frequently printed large numbers of additional 

 copies to meet the demand. 



Prof. S. W. Johnson is the author of " Essays on Peat, 

 Muck, and Commercial Manures," "Peat and Its Uses as 

 Fertilizer and Fuel," "How Crops Grow," and "How Crops 

 Feed," which were written previous to the establishment of 

 the station. The two books last named have been translated 

 into French, German, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese, and 

 have been used as text -books. "How Crops Grow " was re- 

 printed in England and translated into Italian, and a revised 

 edition was issued in New York in 1891. Dr. H. P. Armsby, 

 while on the staff of this station, wrote his "Manual of Cattle 

 Feeding." Numerous papers have from time to time been 

 published in scientific journals by members of the station 

 staff. Messrs. Jenkins and Winton made a " Compilation of 

 Analyses of American Feeding Stuffs" that was published as 

 a bulletin of the Office of Experiment Stations. 



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