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 '-ly ' Tillman 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology j^' g* Lqng^' ^^' ^' 



■n^^A rV^v^c/J• I- SCHULTE. 



FieldCrops|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 and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary Medicine {[^; A; U--- 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education l^'^ Lane^' 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXV, NO. 9. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 801 



Notes 900 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Vegetable fats and oils, Andes, trans, by Salter 801 



Composition of rice oil, Tsujimoto 801 



In regard to the refraction constants of vegetable oils, Klimont 801 



Reactions of carbohydrates. — I, Sucrose, Reichard 801 



Behavior of humin in alkaline solutions of bromin, Konschegg 802 



A study of the lignocellulose of timothy hay. Given 802 



The production of acetic and formic acid from lignin. Cross 803 



"Sugar sand " from maple sap ; a som-ce of malic acid, Warren 803 



In regard to the fixation of lactic acid by casein, Van Dam 803 



Protective enzyms [in fruits]. Cook et al 803 



Tests with the diastase of Aspergillus oryzx, Miinter 803 



Modification of the diphenylamin test, Withers and Ray 804 



Test for nitric acid, Klein 804 



New method for the rapid determination of nitrate nitrogen, Quartaroli 804 



Analysis of calcium cyanamid, Stutzer 805 



The use of silver phosphate as a standard for phosphoric acid, Dumas 805 



Detection of arsenic acid in the presence of phosphoric acid, Maderna 805 



Investigations on estimation of inorganic phosphorus in animal tissues, 'WTiittier . 805 



A study in the determination of calcium, Heise 806 



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