704 Agricultural Administration in Austria-Hungary. 
it would appear that such reports are not for use as advertise 
ments, but rather for determining the value of goods actuali 
in warehouse. 
In addition to this work, instruction is given at most of thi 
stations to a limited number of students, who combine witl 
their studies such work as will be of assistance to the station 
Qualified men are also sent from some of the stations to th( 
various country towns, where they deliver courses of lectures 
and give practical instruction wherever possible. 
The Imperial Agricultural Experimental Station at Vienna.— 
This, which is by far the most important of all the stations 
merits some detailed description. It was founded by the 
Government in 1870 for the following objects :— 
(a) Scientific researches with regard to animal and vegetable production. 
(b) Investigations in connection with the practice of agriculture, e.g.. 
on the laws of acclimatisation of plants and animals, on the value of new 
cultivated plants, on the cultivation of plants which are used in commerce 
and in medicine, on the manuring of permanent pastures, on dairying, &c. 
(e) Control of artificial manures. 
(d) Examination and application of mineral manures. 
(e) Analytical, physiological, and microscopic examinations for the 
Ministry of Agriculture, or (at fixed fees) for societies or private indi- 
viduals. 
(/) Dissemination of the results of the investigations by means of lectures 
and publications ; training of agricultural surveyors ; generally, offering 
advice and guidance. 
The station has since developed into one of the most impor- 
tant institutions of the kind. The work is carried on in three 
directions — -viz., scientific researches, examinations of agricul- 
tural and technical products, and education. Of special impor- 
tance are the investigations with regard to animal physiology, 
manuring experiments, and the nutritive value and preserva- 
tion of human food. The physiological experiments are made 
with the aid of Pettenkofer's respiration apparatus. Feeding 
experiments have lately been made with horses, calves, sheep, pigs, 
rabbits, ducks, and pigeons, with a view to ascertain the nutri- 
tive value and digestibility of mixtures of forage and also of 
new and suspicious feeding-stuffs. Experiments are also made 
on various mixed foods, on the smut of wheat, on saccharine, 
on manures ; on the cultivation of new fodder-plants, such as 
green sorghum (Sorghum saccliaratum'), prickly comfrey (Sym- 
phytum asperrimum), the soja or soybean (Soja hiapida), ami 
caper-spurge (Euphorbia lathyris); on ensilage, and on other 
matters. 
No experimental fields are attached to this station, it being 
the practice to carry out the field experiments on the farms of 
