Evans, Ph. 

 Boyd. 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotochny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D.. M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers |j^ ^. trullinger. 

 Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologj- j^y' j," 



„. , , ^ f J. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Crops j^. ^^ tuckeu, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



-, , , TT -V- * -i.- V, /C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutrition I jj- ^ lang 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Daii-y Farming — H. Webster. 

 Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker, D. V. M. 

 ,,. , . AT 1- • /W. A. Hooker. 



VeterinaiT Medicme j^. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Tkullingeb. 

 Rural Economics — E. JMerritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moobe. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXI, NO. i. 



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Editorial notes: Page- 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1914-15 1 



Recent work in agricultural science 10 



Notes 99 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Simple plant bases and the synthesis of proteins and lecithins, Trier 10 



In regard to our knowledge of phytin, Jegorow 10 



Investigation of the mannit occun-ing in asparagus juice, Busolt 10 



The carbohydrates in green string beans and cauliflower, Busolt 11 



The organic nitrogen of Hawaiian soils, Kelley and Thompson 11 



Organic constituents of culture solution and mycelium from soil, Sullivan. ... 12 



Polyatomic alcohols as sources of carbon for lower fungi, Neidig 13 



Influence of organic substances on diastase, Chapman and Etheridge 13 



Effect of acids upon catalase of taka-diastase, Neidig 13 



About the presence of stachyose in beans and other legumes, Tanret 13 



The juice of Ficus coronata, an incomplete vegetable pancreatic juice, Gerber. . 13 



The decomposition of amygdalin and vicianin by enzym action, Compton 14 



The decomposition of cellulose by micro-organisms, Krainsky 14 



A titrimetric method for thiosulphate in presence of sulpliites, Bodnar 15 



The approximate determination of traces of thiosulphate in sulphites, Bodndr. . 15 



Estimating the fineness of flowei's of sulphur and ground sulphur, Hofman. ... 15 



Estimation of small quantities of manganese and chromium, Dittrich 16 



Drying soils in an electrically heated vacuum desiccator, Hornberger 16 



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