ALABAMA

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

Scientific Bureaus.

WEATHER BUREAU-C. F. MARVIN, Chief.

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY-A. D. Melvin, Chief.
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY-W. A. Taylor, Chief.
FOREST SERVICE-H. S. GRAVES, Forester.
BUREAU OF SOILS-Milton Whitney, Chief.
BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY-C. L. Alsberg, Chief.

BUREAU OF STATISTICS-V. H. Olmsted, Statistician.
Bureau of ENTOMOLOGY-L. O. Howard, Entomologist.
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY-H. W. Henshaw, Chief.
OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS-L. W. Page, Director.

OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS-A. C. True, Director.

THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

College Station: Auburn; J. F. Duggar.a

Canebrake Station: Uniontown; L. H. Moore.a

Tuskegee Station: Tuskegee Institute; G. W.

Carver.a

ALASKA-Sitka: C. C. Georgeson.b

ARIZONA-Tucson: R. H. Forbes.a

ARKANSAS-Fayetteville: M. Nelson.a

CALIFORNIA-Berkeley: T. F. Hunt.
COLORADO-Fort Collins: C. P. Gillette.a
CONNECTICUT-

State Station: New Haven, E. H. Jenkins."
Storrs Station: Storrs;
DELAWARE- -Newark: H. Hayward.a
FLORIDA-Gainesville: P. H. Rolfs.a
GEORGIA-Experiment: R. J. H. De Loach.a
GUAM-Island of Guam: J. B. Thompson.
HAWAII-

Federal Station: Honolulu; E. V. Wilcox.b
Sugar Planters' Station: Honolulu; H. P.
Agee.a

IDAHO Moscow: W. L. Carlyle.a
ILLINOIS-Urbana: E. Davenport.a
INDIANA-La Fayette: A. Goss.a
lowA-Ames: C. F. Curtiss,a

KANSAS- Manhattan: W. M. Jardine.a
KENTUCKY-Lexington: J. H. Kastle.a

LOUISIANA

b Special agent in charge.

* Acting director.

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.,

Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers-W. H. BEAL.

M. D.

(W. H. EVANS, Ph. D.

Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Vegetable Pathology W. E. BOYD.

Field Crops

JJ. I. SCHULTE.

G. M. TUCKER, Ph. D.

Horticulture and Forestry-E. J. GLASSON.

Foods and Human Nutrition G. F. LANGWORTHY, Ph. D., D. Sc.

(H. L. LANG.

Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming-E. W. MORSE.
Economic Zoology and Entomology-W. A. HOOKER, D. V. M.
W. A. HOOKER.

Veterinary Medicine{

L. W. FETZER.

Rural Engineering-R. TRULLINGER.

Rural Economics-B. B. Hare.

Agricultural Education-C. H. LANE.

Indexes-M. D. MOORE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVIII.

EDITORIAL NOTES.

A closer union of agricultural libraries....

Practical experience as a part of the agricultural course..

The agricultural appropriation act, 1913-14..

The retirement of Secretary Wilson.....

Page.

1

101

301

307

The coordination of State agricultural institutions....

401

The agricultural engineer and some of his opportunities..

Increasing interest in agricultural meteorology..

601

701

Opportunity for study of the meteorological conditions of plant environment..

706

SPECIAL ARTICLE.

Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment

Stations, 1912......................