EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XXXI. September, 1914. No. 4. 



The sixth session of the Graduate School of Agi'iculture was held 

 June 29 to July 24 at the College of Agriculture of the University of 

 Missouri. As heretofore, the School was conducted under the auspices 

 of the Association of American Agi-icultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations, through its standing committee on graduate study. Since 

 its purpose is not only to give advanced instruction in agricultural 

 science but to acquaint investigators with the latest methods em- 

 ployed and results obtained in special research by their fellows in 

 particular fields, the attendance is by no means confined to begin- 

 ners in agricultural research. Each session finds an increasing 

 number of seasoned scientific workers enrolled for the sake of its 

 associations and its broadening influence as well as for the practical 

 and special benefit to be derived therefrom. The more advanced 

 phases of the work are being more and more accentuated in the suc- 

 cessive sessions, and a considerable portion of the information now 

 being oifered in the school is not generally accessible elsewhere for 

 some time, if obtainable at all in so effective a form. 



The instruction in the Graduate School for this year was conducted 

 along six main lines, each running through the four weeks' session, as 

 experience has demonstrated the advantage of concentrating attention 

 on a limited number of subjects for the entire period. Those in- 

 cluded for this session were genetics, agronom}', horticulture, ani- 

 mal husbandry, immunity and disease resistance, and rural economics 

 and sociology, including farm management. 



The number of instructors was twenty-nine, with a considerable 

 number of other speakers at the various conferences and other 

 gatherings. Ten of these were members of the faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, and the remainder were specialists from ' the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, various agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the 

 University of Edinburgh, and the Imperial Biological Institute 

 at Dahlem, Berlin. Dr. A. C. True of this Office again acted as dean, 

 with !Mr. Arthur J. Meyer of the University of Missouri as registrar. 

 The enrollment of students reached one hundred and fifty, repre- 

 senting about thirty States and Territories, besides the District of 

 Columbia, Porto Rico, Canada, and Scotland. 



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