EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITOKIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers < r> w TniMAM 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology j^y- ^- g^YD^' ^^' ^' 



v iJ /-< fJ- I- SCHULTE. 



IieldCropsjj Q j^^^.^^^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy^ Ph. D , D. So. 

 Zootechny, Dairpng, and Dairy Farming — E. W. Morse 

 Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



veterinary Medicme{W- A; Hooke- , ,„^^^^ 



Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. »je:\m.' v/tL.K- 



Rural Economic^B. B. Hare. ^*^^ ^"•^'^ 



Agricultu^l Education{g;|,- -i,---- \ 'N-CAl. 



CONTENTS OF VOL, XXVII, NO. 3. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 201 



Notes 300 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Metabolic water: Its production and role in vital phenomena, Babcock 201 



Contribution to our knowledge of plant phosphatids, Njegovan 202 



The localization of betain in plants, Stanek 203 



The betains occurring in plants, II, Schulze and Trier. 203 



The occurrence of betains in the plant kingdom, Yoshimura and Trier 204 



Micro-organisms and fermentation, Jorgensen 204 



Silage fermentation, Esten and Mason 204 



Agricultural chemistry, Otto 205 



Chemical-technical methods of analysis, edited by Lunge and Berl 205 



Theory and practice of volumetric analysis, Classen 205 



The neutral permanganate method for availability of organic nitrogen, Street. . 205 



Activity of organic nitrogen and the alkaline permanganate method, Jones 206 



A method for determining phosphoric anhydrid colorimetrically, Passerini. . . 206 



A rapid volumetric method for estimation of free sulphur, Davis and Foucar . . 206 



Detection of fluorids, Rupp -_ 206 



Work on the composition, analysis, and adulteration of foods, Vandevelde 206 



Compendium for food chemists, Bujard and Baier 207 



Netherland food codex, Vandevelde 207 



The valuation of edible fats by color reactions, Serger 207 



Examination of diseased potatoes with Reimann's potato balance, Hals 207 



An electrical conductivity test for purity of maple sirup, Snell .,,......., 207 



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