EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITOEIAL DEPABTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {J; «. ^^^^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology l^' ^- ^l^^^' ^^' ^' 



l.^^r.^A r>,.^^c /J' I- SCHULTE. 



Field Crops |^ ^^ tucker. Ph. D. 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson, 



Foods and Human Nutrition {£• l. L^Nor''^"''' ^^" ^" ^" ^'" 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. 



Economic Zoology and Entomologj' — W. A. Hooker. D. V. M. LlBl^AR^ 



Veterinary Medicine {^•^' ^t™" '^^^ VOR 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. *OTan/Ca 



Rural Economics — E. Mebritt. ClAt^ 



Agricultural Education— C. H. Lane. ^^KUbm. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXI. NO. 3. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 201 



Notes 300 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Biochemistry, Alsberg 201 



Chemistry of fats, lipoids, and waxy substances, Glikin 201 



Distribution of alkaloids in the belladonna plant, Sievers 201 



The leaf oil of Douglas fir, Schorger 201 



Aroma of hops: The volatile oil with relation to geographical soirrces, Rabak. . 201 



The occmTence of adenin and asparaginic acid in mulberry leaves, Mimurotc. 203 



The occurrence of histidin betain in Boletus edulis, Winterstein and Renter. . 203 



Conditions affecting acti\ity and stability of ferments, Long and Johnson 203 



Inhibition of enzym action by lime-softened waters, Bergeim and Hawk 204 



The occurrence of maltase in cereals, Wierzchowski 204 



The enzyms of the tobacco plant, Oosthuizen and Shedd 204 



Micro-organisms in commercial lime-sulphur, Peters and Brooks 205 



Kjeldahl-Gunning- Arnold v. Kjeldahl and Gunning methods, Trescot 205 



Almninum reduction method as applied to nitrates in ''alkali" soils, Burgess. . 206 



Mineralogical soil analysis, McCaughey 206 



Determination of man^nese in the soil, Stritar 206 



Potash in mixed fertilizers, Keitt 207 



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