EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. i)., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. 1). 

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



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology-j ^y" jj' Lq^^^' 



T-,. , , ,, /J. I. Schulte. 

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



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. I). 



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



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and \'eterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXII, NO. 8. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 701 



Notes --..: 800 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



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AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. , 



The crystallography of hemoglobins, Reichert and Brown 701 



On the biochemistry of nucleic acids, Levene 702 



The biochemical role of bacteria, Horowitz- Wlassowa 702 



A critical study of the natural changes occurring in fats and oils, Hepburn .... 702 



Action of nitric acid on starch, Doroshevski, Rakovski and Bardte 702 



Vicianose, Bertrand and Weisweiller 702 



Investigations in regard to rennet action, Hoft 702 



Differentiation of rennet coagulum from that produced by acid, Hoft 702 



The newer work on bacterial fermentation, Emmerling 703 



Ferments and their actions, Oppenheimer 703 



The oxidases, Kastle 703 



The presence of a catalase and an anaeroxydase in cow's milk, Sarthou 703 



The intracellular enzyms of Penicillium and Aspergillus, Dox 703 



The nuclein ferments of yeasts, Straughn and Jones 703 



The bluing of press yeast. Baron 703 



The stimulation of prematme ripening by chemical means, Vinson 703 



Concerning the after-ripening of fruits. Otto and Kooper 704 



Postripening of fruits. Otto and Kooper 704 



The chemical novelties for 1909, Poulenc 704 



An iodimetric determination of phosphorus, Artmann 705 



Determination of hypophosphoric, phosphorous, and hypophosphorous acids 



in presence of each other and phosphoric acid, Rosenheim and Pinsker 705 



Analysis of double superphosphates, Foester 706 



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