EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers -j 3 ' w " Tillman 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology Ly' v\ Boyd^^' 

 Field Cr„ps{J;Ij,S««LT.. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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

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

 Economic Zoology and Entomology — ^W. A. Hooker. 

 Veterinary Medicine {5; ,^;HooK«. 



Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agrieultuxal Education {J?; {, ^,7-- _ , „;^.:;;*'- 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVII, NO. 4. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The agricultural appropriation act of 1912-13 301 



Recent work in agricultural science 309 



Notes 397 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



The transformation of malic acid to sugar by the maple, Bloor 309 



The chemical composition of the substances contained in the birch, Grasser 309 



The occmrence of formyl and acetyl groups in lignin. Cross and Tollens 310 



Plant coloring matters, Oesterle 310 



In regard to chlorophyll, Kautzsch i 310 



Colloid chemistry of food and condiments, Bechhold 310 



Yearly reports on the examination of foods and condiments, Beckurts et al 310 



Determination of ustillaginous spores in wheat bran, Groh 310 



Inspection of cyanogenetic haricot beans in France, Gautier and Bordas 310 



Calculating water in canned tomatoes and detection of added water, Congdon. . 310 



Osmotic activity in the egg of the common fowl, Greenlee 311 



Value of guaiac tincture test for differentiating raw from boiled milk, Rievel. . 311 



Better cream through grading. — A new butter moisture test, Benkendorf 311 



The determination of moistiu-e in butter, Rivett 312 



Refraction of the nonvolatile acids of butter. Van Raalte and Lichtenbelt 312 



A modified butyrometer for determining the fat content of cheese. Van Gulik. . 312 



Use of reversed filtration and Weender methods for crude fiber, Schroder 312 



A micro-chemical test for digestible cellulose in feces, Amann 312 



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