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THE “Experiment Station Record” consists in chief of a series of abstracts of papers dealing with agricultural science all the world over, together with occasional general reviews and summaries. Abstracts are very rarely wholly, satisfactory to the scientific worker, but there are few subjects more in need of work of this kind than is agriculture. The recognised organs of agricultural science are numerous enough, but much valuable work escapes their notice and appears in the irregularly issued reports and bulletins of some State or institution or society, or, again, is published in a journal devoted to one of the many pure sciences on which agriculture touches. Hence the value of the “Experiment Station Record”; so thorough is the organisation of the United States Department that very little escapes its net, and the student with an intelligent capacity for reading between the lines will by its help be generally put on the track of anything which concerns him specially. Particularly he will be saved the trouble of looking through the very numerous annual reports and bulletins issued by the separate States.in America, for they are fully reported in the “Record,” and almost wholly neglected by the German abstractors. We believe our own Board of Agriculture is about to undertake a somewhat similar work for the many scattered publications of county councils and colleges which have been doing agricultural experiments in this country during the last ten years or so. We doubt if the “Experiment Station Record”is as well known as it deserves to be; at any rate, several of our best specialist libraries in London possess it very partially, if at all, useful as it is even to men engaged in pure science. Meantime, it has become indispensable to all workers in agricultural science, and they owe a debt of gratitude to the United States Department of Agriculture both for its publication and for the liberality with which it is distributed.
The Experiment Station Record.
Vol. xiv. Nos. 5–9. (Washington: the United States Department of Agriculture, 1903.)
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H., A. The Experiment Station Record . Nature 68, 621 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068621b0
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