EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Th. D., (JhieJ, Ojjice vf Experiment Stations. 

 Aesistaut Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Ohemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizeras _ \-.,„, 



°"^ I.R. W. Trullinger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology] ^■,' ' ' 



-.,• 1 1 r, /J- I- SCHULTE. 



l"ield Cropss. „ _ 



' U. D. LUCKETT. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker, D. V. M. 



,, J J ,r ,, ^ .,. fC. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



loods and Human Nutntions., t t 



IH. Li. Lang. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farmingj., - ' 



,,. . ,, ,. ■ fW. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary Medicines ,, ,, twt 



•' IL. H. Nollau. 



Kural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 



Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education^,' mo 



LM. T. Spethmann. 



Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVI. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. , 



Page. 

 The New York meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 



Science 1 



The adjustment of science to practice 2 



Qualities and organization of research and experiment 5 



Coordination in scientific effort 7 



The training of investigators 101 



Graduate students as research assistanta 103 



Physics in agricultural investigation 106 



A decade under the Adams Act 301 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1917-18 401 



,— The experiment stations and the war 601 



^The coordination of science and practice in agriculture 604 



j^The Federal Aid Vocational Education Act 701 



