EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 AsHifitant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural ChemiBtry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers { r> ry^ rr. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology /„/ tj, -p . ' 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Zootechny, Dairying and Dairy Farming — E. W. Morse. 



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. HooKEB. 



fW. A. Hooker. 



IL. W. F'etzer. 

 Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



J. Crosby. 

 H. Lanb. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



Veterinary Medicine < , 



Rural Engineering — R. 

 Rural Economics — B. 1 



Agricultural Education i^ ' 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The need for research in home economics 1 



Fifth session of the Graduate School of Agriculttire 101 



The agricultural appropriation act of 1912-13 301 



Dr. M. A. Scovell, deceased 401 



The anniversary of agricultural education 601 



The influence of the land-gran t colleges on higher education 605 



The semicentennial of the National Department of Agriculture 701 



The quarter centennial of the experiment station system 708 



STATION PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTED. 



Alabama College Station: 



Bulletin 158, October, 1911 372 



159, December, 1911 34 



160, December, 1911 33 



161, December, 1911 24 



162, February', 1912 34 



Circular 14, pt. 2, March, 1912 742 



15, February, 1912 59 



Twenty-second Annual Report, 1909 396 



Twenty-third Annual Report, 1910 396 



Twenty-fourth Annual Report, 1911 554, 559 



