EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPAKTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzeb, Ph. D. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



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



„. , , ^ f J. I. Schulte. 



FieldCropsjj Q_ j^^j^^jj^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — E. W. Morse. 



lOconomlc Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXII, NO. i. 



Editorial n otes : Pa&e. 



Live stock shows ii. relation to theory and practice 1 



Animal feeding and the conservation of the food supply 5 



Recent work in agricultural science 8 



Notes 95 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Concerning protein, Pfliiger 8 



The leucin fraction of proteins, Levene and Van Slyke 8 



The leucin fraction in casein and edestin, Levene and Van Slyke 8 



On the partial hydrolysis of edestin, Skraup and Wober 8 



Elei'trolysis of iron pipe, Siebel 8 



Contributions to micro-chemical analysis, Schoorl 8 



Nessler's reagent, Schneider 8 



A new acidimetric method employing lime water, De Gregorio Rocasolano. . . 9 



Accuracy of the Volhard method for chlorin, Rothmund and Burgstaller 9 



Aluminum as an impurity in barium sulphate precipitate, Creighton 9 



A new method for phosphoric acid in alkaline phosphates, Pozzi-Escot 9 



Moisture discrepancies in phosphate rock of the Pacific, James 9 



Limitations of starch as an accelerator, Francis 9 



The determination of phosphoric acid by the Neumann method, Schaumann. 9 



The determination of phosphorus in flesh, Trowbridge 9 



Handbook of biochemical methods, Abderhalden 9 



A contribution to the biological differentiation of proteids, Rickmann 10 



The Bang method for the determination of sug.ar, Jessen-Hansen 10 



Color reactions for sugars with the indol bodies, Gnezda 10 



The detection of saccharose and calcium sucrate, Rothenfusser. 10 



Estimation of ash in sugars and sirups from the electrical conductivity. Main. 10 



Direct determination of starch according to Baumert and Bode, Baumert 10 



A comparative study of methods for starch, Giltay and Blanksma 10 



A rapid method for hydrolyzing starch, Olson 11 



The estimation of starch in feeds and foodstuffs, Scholl 11 



The indirect determination of alcohol in raspberry sirup, Giinzel 11 



The determination of volatile organic acids in tobacco, Kissling 11 



The value of the nitrate reaction in milk, Rothenfusser 11 



The estimation of the dirt content of milk, Weller 11 



The influence of heating upon butter fat, Behre H 



The Polenske method for the detection of animal fats, Laband 11 



About melting point determinations, Giith 12 



The value of the oil of sesame reaction, Hoton 12 



Comparative halogen absorption of oils, Remington and Lancaster 12 



A short handbook of oil analysis, Gill 12 



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