EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology ]„.' ^j' ■. ' ' 

 Field Crops Ij^j^^^^^^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — E. \V. Mor.se. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXII. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



Live stock shows in relation to theory and practice .- 1 



Animal feeding and the conservation of the food supply 5 



Government v. administration in relation to the agricultural colleges and ex- 

 periment stations 101 



The economic condition of agriculture 201 



The need for studies in rural economics 203 



The field and influence of the agricultural college 401 



An important discovery 501 



Fourth session of the Graduate School of Agriculture 505 



Julius Kiihn, professor of agriculture 601 



A new theory of bacterial activity in the soil 605 



STATION PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTED. 



Alabama Canebrake Station: 



Bulletin 27, January, 1910 633 



Alabama College Station: 



Circular 3, February, 1909 260 



Twenty -first Annual Report, 1908 694 



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