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. 



T^. , , ., f J. I. SCHULTE. 



Field(rops|j_Q j^^^^^j^ 



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



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXII, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The field and influence of the agricultural college 401 



Recent work in agricultural science 410 



Notes -- 496 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The nitrogen-containing radicle of lecithin and other phosphatids, MacLean.. 410 



The lecithin and iron content of milk, Glikin 410 



Chemical constitution and optical rotatory power of sugar lactones, Hudson.. 410 



Formaldehyde from beet leaves and roots, Gentil 410 



Colloid chemistry and the soil, Gedroiz 411 



Neuliauer's method for potash, Schmitz 411 



Determination of phosphoric acid in mineral phosphates, Jorgensen 411 



The detection and determination of lead in drinking water, Pinchbeck 411 



Food inspection and analysis, Leach 411 



Modified combustion bomb for calorimetric and analytical purposes, Langbein. 411 



Determination of phosphorus by the bomb calorimeter, Lemoult 411 



Methods for the quantitative chemical analysis of animal tissues, Koch et al.. 411 



Variations observed in the composition of lard, Durier 411 



Examination of flour, Schaffnit 41 1 



Judging flour by its catalase content, Liechti 411 



Substances in bread and biscuits giving the ferric chlorid reaction, Backe 412 



Rice flour, Collin 412 



The quantitative determination of cane sugar by the use of invertase, Hudson. 412 



New procedure for determining sugar by Bonnan's method, Maillard 412 



A delicate reaction for sugars, Pozzi-Escot 412 



Clarification of solutions containing invert sugar, Browne, Bryan and Wiley.. 412 



Unification of tables for comparing specific gravity with sugar content, Saillard. 413 



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