Febeuaby 10, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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of the station's work have been published 

 in the Hawaiian Planters^ Monthly, and in 

 bulletin form. The station has been ably 

 directed, and its work has been systematic- 

 ally and successfully pursued. 



THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Besides the work done in the supervision 

 of expenditures of the stations and in con- 

 ferences and correspondence with station 

 officers, this oflice has continued to collect 

 and disseminate information regarding the 

 progress of agricultural investigations 

 throughout the world. Not only has this 

 feature of its work been made more 

 thorough, as regards the review of the 

 literature of agricultural science for the 

 benefit of our station workers, but the 

 preparation of popular resumes of station 

 work has been more systematically pur- 

 sued. A series of such publications, de- 

 nominated Experiment-Station Work, has 

 been begun in connection with the Farmers' 

 Bulletins issued by the Department. 



During the year the office issued about 

 43 documents, aggregating 2,920 pages. 

 These include 13 numbers of the Experi- 

 ment Station Record, with detailed index, 

 12 bulletins, 7 Farmers' Bulletins (includ- 

 ing 4 numbers of the subseries entitled 

 ' Experiment Station Work ' ) , 1 circular, 4 

 articles for the Year Book of the Depart- 

 ment, the annual report of the Director, a 

 report to Congress on the work and ex- 

 penditures of the experiment stations, and 

 4 special articles published as separates. 



The ninth volume of the Experiment 

 Station Record comprises 1,214 pages, and 

 contains abstracts of 317 bulletins and 66 

 annual reports of 53 experiment stations in 

 the United States, 201 publications of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and 842 reports 

 of foreign investigations. The total num- 

 ber of pages in these publications is 56,569. 

 The total number of articles abstracted is 

 1,810, classified as follows: Chemistry, 



121 ; botany, 86 ; fermentation and bac 

 teriology, 28 ; zoology, 31 ; meteorology, 

 57 ; water and soils, 72 ; fertilizers, 85 ; 

 field crops, 153 ; horticulture, 138 ; fores- 

 try, 16; seeds and weeds, 41 ; diseases of 

 plants, 107 ; entomologj', 252 ; foods and 

 animal production, 186 ; dairy farming and 

 dairying, 151 ; veterinary science, 134 ; 

 technology, 11 ; agricultural engineering, 

 38 ; statistics, 103. Classified lists of arti- 

 cles, in some cases with brief abstracts, are 

 also given in each number. The aggre- 

 gate number of titles thus reported is 

 2,471. 



STATISTICS OF THE STATIONS. 



Agricultural experiment stations are now 

 in operation, under the Act of Congress of 

 March 2, 1887, in all the States and Terri- 

 tories. As stated above, agricultural ex- 

 periments have been begun in Alaska with 

 the aid of national funds, and an experi- 

 ment station is in operation in Hawaii 

 under private auspices. In each of the 

 States of Alabama, Connecticut, New 

 Jersey and New York a separate station 

 is maintained, wholly or in part, by State 

 funds, and in Louisiana a station for sugar 

 experiments is maintained, partly by funds 

 contributed by sugar planters. Excluding 

 the branch stations established in several 

 States, the total number of stations in the 

 United States is 54. Of these, 52 receive 

 the appropriation provided for in the Act of 

 Congress above mentioned. The total in- 

 come of the stations dui-ing 1898 was $1,- 

 210,921.17, of which §720,000.00 was re- 

 ceived from the National Government; the 

 remainder, $490,921.17, coming from the 

 following sources : State governments, 

 $341,897.94; individuals and communi- 

 ties, $177.20; fees for analyses of fertili- 

 zers, $93,677.00 ; sales of farm products, 

 $65,358.25; miscellaneous, $20,312.48. In 

 addition to this the Ofl&ce of Experiment 

 Stations had an appropriation of $35,000 

 for the past fiscal year, including $5,000 for 



