EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



(W. H. Beal. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers|g ^_ Tillman. 



|W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyi^ 2 Long 



fj. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj q r^^kin. 



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 and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



(W. A. Hooker. 

 Veterinary MedicmeJL w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIV. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Page. 



The gathering of societies in Washington in November 1 



The affiliation of societies for agricultural science 3 



An international congress of agricultural education 7 



The field of agricultural engineering as a teaching and a professional branch. . . 101 



Plans for agricultural development in Great Britain 201 



The study of humus 206 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1911-12 401 



The method of science 501 



Recent improvements in the respiration calorimeter 601 



A new application of the respiration calorimeter 605 



SPECIAL ARTICLE. 



Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 



Stations, 1910 108 



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