EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Vu. I)., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers in 'w' Tillm vn 

 Agricultiu-al Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology ^,y' J, *-n ' 



Field Crops{J:f;.S---: 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langwortiiy, Ph. 1)., D. Sc. 



Zootechuy, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — E. W. Morse. I^|r, 



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



'" " A. Hooker. f*E^ 



Veterinary Medicine -^t \y' p.^ 



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ETZER. 



Rural Engineering — li. Trullinger. 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hake. ^- 



AgricuKurul Education {^•■^- lTne^' 



CONTEN.TS OF VOL. XXVII, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Fifth session of the Graduate School of Agriculture 101 



Recent work in agricultural science 107 



Notes 197 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Handbook of biochemical methods, edited by Abderhalden 107 



vVn introduction to the chemistry of colloids, Poschl, trans, by Hodgson 107 



Introduction to colloid chemistry, Poschl 107 



Physical chemistry of the cell and tissue, Hober 107 



Chemistry of the cell, Gies et al 107 



In regard to the chemistry of chlorophyll, Tsvett 107 



Yearbook of chemistry, edited by Meyer 107 



Investigations in regard to the precipitation of proteins, Vandevelde 107 



The synthesis of fats by the action of enzyms, Dunlap and Gilbert 108 



The variations in the phosphorus content of seeds, Lewoniewska 108 



Action of phosphates upon the activity of proteolytic ferments, Iwanow 108 



Some observations upon the assay of digestive ferments, Graber 108 



Action of salts of the gold group upon sacchai'ification of stai-ch, Gerber 109 



Action of salts of alkali metals upon sacchsj-ihcation of starch, Gerber 109 



Action of some salts upon saccharification of soluble stai'ch, Gerber 109 



In regard to catalase. Grimmer 109 



Examination of substances important in agricultiu-e and the industries, Konig. . 109 



A quantitative method for small amounts of potassium, Mitscherlich et al. ... 109 



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