EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Chief, Office of Experiment Stations. 

 Assistant Editor: II. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology Soils, and Fertilizers |ti w m 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriolo.,'y, and Plant Pathology j^' t,^ \> 



_,. , J ^ fj. I. SCHULTE 



Field Crops < t tx t 



^ (J. D. LUCKETT. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



„ J J TT AT ^ .t- fC. F. Lanqworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutrition \^^ ^ ^ 



IH. L. Lang. 



„ . , ^ . . , T. • u . fD. W. May. 



Zoo(echny, Dairying, and Dairy Inarming -^.^ „ ,^ 



.- ^ . ,, J. • (W. A. Hooker. 

 Vetermary Medicine ^„ tt xt 



•^ |E. H. Nollau. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trulungee. 



Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education <,■ -,,-," 

 ^ |M. T. Spethmann. 



Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVII. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



The response of the experiment stations to the present emergency 1 



The adjustment of theory and practice to war conditionp 4 



Adequate station administration 101 



Some tendencies under deficient administration 105 



The Federal food production act 301 



Research and the research worker in relation to national affairs 401 



The development of American technical agricultural journals 405 



The Thirty-first Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Experiment Stations 601 



Attendance at the agricultural colleges as affected by the war 701 



STATION PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTED. 



Alabama College Station: 



Bulletin 193, February, 1917 233 



Bulletin 194, February, 1917 234 



Circular 35, February, 1917 599 



Circular 36, April, 1917 682 



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