EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Pii. 1)., Assistant Director. 



EDITORlAr, DICI-Ain'MENTS. 



Mc'tt'orology, Soils, and Fertilizers — ^\V. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany and Vegetable Pathology — W." H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticultiu-e and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Agrotechny, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — H. W. Lawson. 



Agricultural Chemistry — ^W. H. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and H. W. Lawson. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 



Rural Engineering — B. P. Fleming. 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



The individual as a factor in agricultural research 1 



The scarcity of men for investigation 3 



The investigator and his salary 5 



James J. Hill upon the future of American agriculture 101 



Problems for investigation on soil fertility 103 



Progress in medical and in agricultural science and practice 201 



Relation between investigation and instruction 204 



Retirement of Director R. J. Redding 206 



Attitude of the experiment stations toward agricultural research 301 



"The kind and character of work under the Adams Act " 303 



Development of public sentiment for agricultural investigation 304 



Extension teaching in agriculture 401 



Organization of extension work 403 



Some problems in agi'icvdtural instruction 501 



The training of teachers for agricultural instruction 503 



Department of nutrition in the Carnegie Institution 505 



The American Breeders' Association • 601 



Scientific aspect of plant-breeding work 602 



The retirement of Dean W. A. Henry 605 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1907-8 701 



Increased Federal aid to agricultural education 705 



M. Berthelot, deceased 705 



The Adams fund projects and what they show 801 



Advantages of systematizing station work 806 



Robert Warington, deceased 807 



Semicentennial of the Michigan Agricultural College 901 



Significance of the agricultural college in the development of American educa- 

 tion 902 



A broad conception of agricultural education 906 



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