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., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers < g -nr Tillman 

 Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology j ^' 



17^^1.1 n-^^o < J- I- SCHULTE. 



FieldCrops-)j Q j^^^^^^ 



Horticulture and Fore.'^try — 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. 



Tr . • -KT J- • i W. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary Medicine | l. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education j ^•■^- lTnI^" 



H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 H. Long. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXV, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The private endowment of agricultural education and research 401 



Recent work in agricultural science 410 



Notes 498 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



[Sampling fertilizers, soils, foods, and miscellaneous material], Fourton 410 



The interpretation of color values obtained by Lovibond's tintometer, Knapp. 410 



Methods for the rapid examination of water, Dane 410 



The determination of free carbon dioxid in water, Tillmans and Heublein 410 



Dissolved oxygen as an index of pollution, Soper and Parsons 410 



The use of calcium carbid for determining moisture, Masson 410 



Exact determination of ash in vegetable and animal matter, Fleurent and Le\'i . 411 



In regard to the physiology of catalase and reductase, Palladin 411 



Analysis of foods, Guillin 411 



Biological methods for detecting horse flesh in pork products, Blanc 411 



The biological method for detecting horse flesh in pork products, Blanc 411 



Composition of the ash of pickles, Bailey 411 



The determination of starch sirup in plum marmalades, Beythien 411 



Biological study of honey, Moreau 412 



The origin of fcrmic acid in honey, Reidenbach , 412 



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