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. 



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



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



V ^A n fJ. L SCHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj ^ ^^^^,^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy P^arming — E. W. Morse. 



Economic 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. 4. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 301 



Notes 399 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



The proteins, Robertson 301 



Newer contributions to special (juestions of protein chemistry, Abderhalden. . 301 



Recent progress in the chemistry of the proteins, Bradbury 301 



The cleavage of proteid by means of dilute mineral acids, Oswald 301 



The hydrolysis and constitution of proteids, Hugounenq and Morel 301 



Researches as to the nature of lactic-acid fermentation, Horth 301 



Influence of acid on inactivation of rennet by shaking, Schmidt-Nielsen .302 



The theory of the function of catalases, Loew 302 



The action of rennet on paracasein calcium. Van Dam 302 



The state in which calcium exists in milk, Rona and Michaelis 302 



Distribution of nitrogen in milk by acid and rennet precipitation, Friedheim. . 303 



[An ammonia-producing enzym in the silkworm], Takeuchi and Inoue 303 



Contributions to micro-chemical analysis, Schoorl 303 



Total nitrogen determination by the Kober method, Gill and Grindley 303 



Determination of small quantities of nitrates, Farcy 303 



Determination of potash with phosphomolybdic acid, Grete 303 



The detection of arsenic acid in presence of arsenious acid, Lutz and Swinne. . 303 



The carbonates of copper and the cupricarbonates, Pickering 304 



Phenolphthalein as a reagent for hydrocyanic acid, Dobriner and Oswald 304 



A characteristic reaction for free tartaric acid, Tagliarini 304 



Formaldehyde, Orloff, trans, by Kietaibl 304 



^Methods of analysis of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries] 304 



Note on a rapid method of analysis of waters, Marcotte 304 



The determination of chlorid of magnesium in water, Emde and Senst 304 



{The determination of chlorid of magnesium in water], Pfeiffer 304 



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