EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural C'hemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D. 



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



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



Field Croi)s — J. L Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



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



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



Rural Engineering — G. A. Griffin. 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXL 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



I'age. 



Retirement of Dr. E. W. Hilgard 1 



Doctor Hilgard's service and influence 2 



Facilities for study and research in the departments at Washington 4 



Agriculture at the National Education Association 101 



Dr. Samuel William Johnson, deceased 201 



Development of science in horticulture 401 



Some essentials of horticultural investigation 405 



The organization of extension work 501 



The attitude toward secondary agricultural education 504 



Permanency of the station personnel 601 



Special preparation for station work 601 



The changed requirements of the station service 604 



SPECIAL ARTICLE. 



Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 



Stations, 1909 506 



STATION PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTED. 



Alabama College Station: 



Bulletin 144, February, 1909 61 



145, February, 1909 39 



Alabam'a Tuskegee Station: 



Bulletin 15, June, 1909 537 



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