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prepared for the Paris Exposition of 1900 

 by a committee of the association of col- 

 leges and stations, of which Professor H. 

 P. Armsby, director of the Pennsylvania 

 Experimental Station, is chairman. The 

 exhibit consists of a collection of special 

 devices for station worlj and illustrations 

 of notable results by means of models and 

 otherwise, photographs and charts showing 

 the buildings and equipment of the stations 

 and special features of their work and their 

 results, and the publications of the stations 

 and of this oflBce. In connection with this 

 exhibit a comprehensive illustrated report 

 on the history and present status of the 

 stations has been prepared in the office of 

 Experimental Stations with a view to show- 

 ing what has been accomplished by the sta- 

 tions since their establishment, and the 

 scope of this great enterprise on behalf of 

 our agriculture as it exists at the close of 

 the nineteenth century. 



THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The work of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations during the past year, as hereto- 

 fore, has included the supervision of the 

 expenditures of the stations ; conferences 

 and correspondence with station officers re- 

 garding the management, equipment, and 

 work of the stations, and the collection 

 and dissemination of information regarding 

 the progress of agricultural investigations 

 throughout the world by means of techni- 

 cal and popular bulletins. The special in- 

 vestigations on the nutrition of man and on 

 irrigation assigned to this office have been 

 prosecuted very largely in co-operation 

 with experiment stations, educational insti- 

 tutions, and other agencies in the diiferent 

 States and Territories. 



During the year the office issued 46 doc- 

 uments, aggregating 2924 pages. These in- 

 clude 13 numbers of the Experiment Station 

 Eecord, with detailed index ; 13 bulletins, 

 8 Farmers' Bulletins (including 5 numbers 



of the subseries entitled ' Experiment Sta- 

 tion Work'), 3 circulars, 1 schedule, 3 

 articles for the Yearbook 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 

 3 special articles published as separates. 



The tenth volume of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion Eecord comprises 1220 pages, and con- 

 tains abstracts of 361 bulletins and 35 an- 

 nual reports of 53 experiment stations in 

 the United States, 172 publications of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and 1224 re- 

 reports of foreign investigations. The total 

 number of pages in these publications is 

 57,230. The total number of articles ab- 

 stracted is 2023, classified as follows : 

 Chemistry, 150 ; botany, 127 ; fermentation 

 and bacteriology, 27 ; zoology, 23 ; meteor- 

 ology, 46 ; air, water, and soils, 86 ; fertil- 

 izers, 109; field crops, 236; horticulture, 

 173 ; forestry, 34 ; seeds and weeds, 37 ; 

 diseases of plants, 180 ; entomology, 202 ; 

 food and animal production, 223 ; dairy, 

 farming and dairying, 168 ; veterinary sci- 

 ence, 86 ; technology, 6 ; agricultural engi- 

 neering, 28 ; statistics, 82. Classified lists 

 of articles, in some cases with brief ab- 

 stracts are also given in each number. The 

 aggregate number of titles thus reported is 

 1820. 



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 un- 

 der private auspices. In each of the States 

 of Alabama, Connecticut, ISTew Jersey, and 

 New York a separate station is maintained 

 wholly or in part by State funds, and in 

 Louisiana three stations are maintained 

 with national and State funds. Excluding 



