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 < t, w TntMAN 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology •< ttt' -r." g^vD^' 



Field Crop, {J; 1,1--- 



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 {[^-.f-f--"- 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education I ^ ' jV j^ 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVI, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The decline of the station annual report 401 



Dr. John B. Smith, deceased 403 



Recent work in agricultural science 405 



Notes 494 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Annual reports on progress of chemistry for 1910, edited by Cain and Greenaway . 405 



Yearly report on progress in chemistry of foods and condiments, Kuttenkeuler. 405 



The chemistry of lime-sulphur wash, Burgess 405 



The phosphoric acids, Holt and Myers 406 



Colorimetric determination of phosphoric acid, Pouget and Chouchak 406 



Determination of phosphoric acid by Neumann's method. Bang 406 



Titration of carbonates in hydroxids or bicarbonates, Tillmans and Heublein. . 406 



An improvement in the method for estimating humus in soils. Rather 406 



Determination of the dissolved oxygen absorbed by sewage effluents, Clarke... 407 



Temperature coefficients of the decomposition of invertase, Euler and Kullberg. 407 



Composition of the wood and bark of a pear tree, Manaresi and Tonegutti 407 



Composition of woods from branches of fruit trees, Manaresi and Tonegutti 407 



Studies of foliage of different branches of fruit trees, Manaresi and Tonegutti. . 407 



The chromogenic substances of white grapes, Dezani 407 



Progress in the examination of foodstuffs during 1909 and 1910, Utz 408 



The optical behavior of lactic acid in a meat preparation, Salkowski 408 



Microscopic detection of ustilaginous spores in cereals, Bredemann 408 



The colorimetric determination of copper in canned goods, Serger 408 



The estimation of small quantities of lead in beer, Knapp 409 



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