EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. 35. October, 1916. No. 5. 



The seventh session of the Graduate School of Agriculture, under 

 the auspices of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations, was held July 3-28 at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. This institution has a regular graduate school, 

 whose director and faculty were especially active in assisting the 

 dean in planning and conducting this summer graduate school. The 

 attempt was made to develop a more S3^stematically organized plan 

 of work at this session than had hitherto been undertaken. This 

 plan involved work in two main lines. One of these included pro- 

 gressive consideration of the fundamental factors involved in the 

 growth of plants and animals. The other dealt with the economic 

 and social factors which enter into the development of profitable 

 systems of agriculture and well-organized rural communities. The 

 fact that the Massachusetts College has been giving special attention 

 to the problems of rural economics and sociology made it very ap- 

 propriate that an effort should be made to summarize the present 

 status of knowledge along these lines in their particular relations to 

 American conditions. 



The total enrollment of instructors and students was one hundred 

 and ninety-eight, representing twenty-seven States, besides the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Porto Rico, England, Canada, and the Transvaal. 



There were forty-five persons who gave instruction as lecturers 

 or leaders of seminars, and about forty others who participated in 

 the formal presentation of matter in the seminars and conferences. 

 The faculty included representatives of the Universities of Illinois, 

 Missouri, Chicago, Harvard, and Yale, the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the Missouri Botanical Garden, Amherst Col- 

 lege, London Hospital Medical College, Massachusetts State Board 

 of Education, Vermont Department of Agriculture, Kalamazoo Nor- 

 mal School, and the agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 in Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, l^ew Hampshire, New York, 

 Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wis- 

 consin. Dr. A. C. True of the States Relations Service again acted 

 as dean, with Dr. C. E. Marshall, dean of the Graduate School of 



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