EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers -j -g '"w' Tillman 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology — W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Vir^^A P^^^o /J- I- SCHULTE. 



FieldCrop3|j Q j^^^^j^ 



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. 



Veterinary Medicine {J\^; H^™' 



Hural Engineering (, IKR A K "s 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. -ir.'W YOkt' 



Agricultural Education {c .' h . lTne .""■ - TanicaL 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVI, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Aiding agriculture in Great Britain under the development act 101 



Recent work in agricultural science 106 



Notes.^ 194 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Biochemical hand lexicon, edited by Abderhalden 106 



Handbook of biochemical methods, edited by Abderhalden 106 



The chemical differentiation of species, ^\^leldale 106 



Mechanisms of cell activity, Alsberg 106 



The centenary of glucose and the early history of starch, Herc^tein 106 



Hydrocarbons of vegetable origin, Klobb, Gamier, and Ehrwein 106 



[Action of hydracids and hydrolyzing agents on starch], De Coninck 107 



Stachydrin in stachys tubers and citrus leaves, Schulze and Trier 107 



The reactions of saponin, Reichard 107 



A method for the study of proteolytic ferments, Kober 107 



Question as to the identity of pepsin and chymosin, Sawitsch 107 



Extraction of fresh plants with boiling alcohol, Bourquelot and Herissey 108 



A very sensitive indicator, Sacher 108 



Estimation of nitrates, Clarens 108 



A simple method for detecting nitrites, Dane 108 



[Cooperative work on phosphoric acid and potash], Breckenridge et al 108 



Estimation of potassium as potassium platinic-chlorid, Fresenius and Brinton. 108 



In regard to determining phosphoric acid, Jorgensen 108 



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