EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAX DEPAETMENTS. 



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



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers J ' ' _ 



[R. W. Trullinger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology i" „* ' 



\W. E. Boyd. 



Field Crops— G. M. Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



fC. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. So. 

 H. L. Lang. 

 C. F. Walton. 

 Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. 

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



fW. A. Hooker, 



Veterinary Medicine.^ ^ „^ „ 



[L. W. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 



Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 



Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXII. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



The Washington convention 1 



Some effects of extension development: 4 



Renewed impoi'tance of agricultural research (> 



The new Section of Agriculture in the American Association 101 



Some aspects of the field of rural economics 105 



The habit of concentration 301 



The qualities and conditions of research 302 



A plea for the small laboratorj" .- 306 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1915—16 401 



A notable contribution to station literature i 601 



The need of consti'uctive ideals in research 603 



Economic aspects of expeiimeut station work : 701 



Experimental inquiry and economic inquiry 703 



Relation of the experiment stations to studies in rural economics 706 



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