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 'Ig '-ly' Tillman 

 Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology 1^^' -a' 



t?- 1J n /J- I- SCHULTE. 



FieldCropsjj 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 and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 

 Veterinary Medicine {W. A. Hc«,KEH. 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Crosby. 



jANE. 



Evans, Ph. D. 

 Long. 



Agricultural Education j^" ^ ^^^^ 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXV, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Norman J. Colman, first Secretary of Agriculture 701 



Opportunities for graduate study in agriculture in the United States 705 



Recent work in agricultural science 709 



Notes 795 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry agrotechny. 



A simplification in the methods for calculating analytical results, Scholz 709 



Determination of phosphoric acid in superphosphates and bone meal, Romdnski. 709 



New procedure for sulphuric acid and sulphates. Auger and Gabillon 709 



Biochemical classification of the proteins, Hauser 709 



On the refractive indices of solutions of gliadin, Robertson and Greaves 709 



Fractional precipitation of milk proteids, Vandevelde 709 



Method for quantitative determination of aliphatic amino groups, Van Slyke. . 710 



Method for quantitative determination of aliphatic animo groups, Van Slyke. . 710 



Quantitative determination of prolin; prolin content of casein, Van Slyke 710 



The carbohydrates of white pepper, Boddener and Tollens 710 



Modification of furfurol-hydrochloric acid method, Boddener and Tollens 711 



In regard to the pentosans of some wood-destroying fungi, Wichers and Tollens. 711 



The determination of pentosans and methyl pentosans, Ishida and Tollens. . . . 711 



Pentosans in lower fungi, Dox and Neidig 711 



Fixing and staining tannin in plant tissues with nitrous ethers, Vinson 711 



Botanical micro-chemistry, Grliss 712 



The artificial coloration of foods and condiments, Spaeth 712 



Fruit juices and marmalades, Spaeth 712 



I 



