EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural (Jhemiatry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzek, Ph. D., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {W- ^f" |^^,",,^.«^« 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology/^- ^- gj^®' ^^- ^• 



T?;«1J n ^ /J- I- SCHULTE. 



^^^'^^™PnG. M.Tucker, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition jg- ^[- ^an'T''''™''' ^^' ^" ^' ^''' Ugp 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Fanning — H. Webster. 'VPW 



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker, D. M. V. - '^^.' 4 



yeterinaryMedidoe[W-J;|oOKB«. . ^^JMvc^^ 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. ^*'4ja(. 



Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXI, NO. 4. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



Sixth session of the Graduate School of Agriculture 301 



Recent work in agricultural science 309 



Notes 397 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Organic chemistry, Haskins 309 



Theories of solutions, Arrhenius 309 



Some further contributions to simple plant bases. Trier .309 



About betonicin and turicin, Kixng and Trier 309 



Synthesis of betonicin and turicin, Kung 310 



Gentiobiose, Zemplen 310 



Enzyms in the leaves of Salix mprea, Bolin 310 



The partial hydrolysis of cellulose, Zemplen 310 



The fermentation of cellulose by thermophilic bacteria, Pringsheim 310 



Constituents of apples, Thomae 310 



The study of the ripening of fruit, Contino 311 



The constituents of hops, Power, Tutin, and Rogerson 311 



Formation of fat in oleaginous fruits. — IV, In Phillyrea media, Scurti 312 



Formation of fat in cork. — V, Cork from the elder {Sambucus nigra), Scurti- . . 312 



Formation of fat in cork. — VI, On leaves of elder, Scurti and Tommasi 312 



Formation of fat in cork. — VII, Fellonic acid of Kiigler, Scurti, and Tommasi. . 312 



The chemical composition of cork substance, Zemplen 31 2 



Methods for the biochemical examination of soils, Stoklasa 312 



Estimation of total carbon in soils, Pozzi-Escot 313 



Estimation of carbon and carbon dioxid, Gr6goire et al 313 



Application of Folin's method for ammonia to fertilizers, Folin and Bosworth. . 313 



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