EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotecliny — L. W. Fetzer, rii. D., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Ferilizersj^;^; ^^^^^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyl^' ^- ^^^^^' ^^' ^^" 



Field Crons/'^- ^- ^chulte. 

 i leici t.rops'j^j ^ Rankin. 



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. 



,, , . TVT T • /W. A. Hooker. 



\eterinary Medicine j^. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



J. Crosby. 



H. Lane. 



Agricultural Educations ^ " 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVI, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The occupation of the agricultural college graduate 601 



Recent work in agricultural science 606 



Notes 694 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The Kjeldahl method for nitrogen, Van Rijn 606 



i^pparatus for determining nitrogen according to Kjeldahl's method, Krieger. . 606 



Analysis of calcium nitrate, lime nitrogen, and nitrogen lime, Dinslage 606 



The valuation of calcium nitrite and nitrate, Stutzer and Goy 606 



Potassium : Its qualitative detection as the cobalti-nitrite, Bowser 607 



Determination of magnesium as magnesium oxid, Kallauner 607 



Some new findings in the chemistry of water, Blacher 607 



The phytosterol content of soy beans, Matthes and Dahle 607 



The hemagglutinating and precipitating capacity, Raubitschek and Wilenko. . . 607 



The cleavage of nitrogen-containing substances l)y yeast, Schwarz 607 



la the action of rennet one of cleavage? Couvreur 608 



A heat-tolerating lipase, Sohngen 608 



Food adulteration, its detection and prevention, Beythien 608 



Rapid summary examination of foods with tablet reagents, Bruere 608 



Judgment of honey on the basis of Fiehe's reaction, Liihrig and Scholz 608 



On the coloring matter in fruit juices, Bailey and Tague 608 



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