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. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers<Ty'-nr^" m^^^* 



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



Field CropsjJ: !,•«---: 



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 MedicinejJ^-^; jH?"-- 



Rural Engineering ^^f^HAlf 



H. Lane. '**^''^ANica 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 

 Agricultural Education< ^ 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVI, NO. 3. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 201 



Notes 299 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



A text-book of physiological chemistry, Hammarsten, trans, by Mandel 201 



A color reaction for proteins with sodium nitroprussid, Arnold 201 



Hydrolysis of the protein of linseed. Foreman 201 



Coagulating point of egg, serum, and milk albumin, and serum, globulin, Micko. 201 



Constitution of vicianose and of vicianin, Bertrand and Weisweiller 201 



Estimating lactose, galactose, and glucose in a mixture of the three, Foa 202 



The determination of starch in wood, Manaresi and Tonegutti 202 



Methods of analysis and tests of fats and oils 202 



The quantitative estimation of volatile fatty acids in feces, McCaughey 202 



The quantitative determination of tannin with casein, Nierenstein 202 



Is peroxidase a ferment? Hesse and Kooper 202 



Effect of ultraviolet rays upon diastase and invertase, Chauchard and Mazon6. . 203 



Action of the Bulgarian ferment upon monobasic acids, Bertrand and Veillon. . 203 



The behavior of fungi with organic acids, Herzog, Ripke, and Salladta 203 



Conditions for tannic acid fermentation, Knudson 203 



The behavior of Penicillium with acetic acid and its salts, Reichel 203 



The phosphorus assimilation of As'pergillus niger, Dox 203 



Method for detecting reducing and oxidizing properties of bacteria, Schultze. . 204 



A contribution to catalase estimation , Laxa 204 



Estimation of nitrates by the phenol-sulphonic acid method , Caron and Raquet. 204 



Separation of barium, strontium, and calcium. Van der Horn van den Bos 204 



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