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^ w Tt^lman 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology/^' ^- ^q^^^' ^^' ^ 

 Field Crop,{J:J,-.S-™TE. 



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. 



Vetori„»yMedici„e{;yA;Ho--. 



RuralEngineering — R. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Educationjp i ^^,°f^^- 



'\C. H. Lane. 





CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVII, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: ^ Page. 



Dr. M. A. Scovell, deceased 401 



Recent work in agricultural science 406 



Notes 493 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Physical chemistry and agriculture, Ulpiani 406 



Agricultural chemistry, Klinkerfues 406 



Phytin and phosphoric acid esters of inosit, Anderson 406 



Method of preparing tyrosin and glutaminic acid, Abderhalden 406 



Identity of the guanin pentosid prepared fi'om molasses, Schulze and Trier 407 



Extraction of alcohol and water-soluble phosphorus compounds, Ulrich 407 



The mode of action of phosphatese, I, Euler and KuUberg 407 



In regard to the action of phosphatese, Euler and Kullberg 407 



Regulatory formation of the enzym tannase, Knudson 408 



Separation of peroxidase from catalase, Kasanski 408 



Action of emulsin upon salicin in an alcoholic medium, Bourguelot and Bridel . 408 



The calcium carbid method for determining moisture, McNeil 408 



The Kjeldahl method, Siegfried and Weidenhaupt 409 



A practical method for reducing potassium platinic chlorid, Fiechter 409 



The determination of potassiiiTn platinic chlorid , Trnka 409 



Method for determination of small amounts of iron, Jahn 409 



A modification of Marsh's apparatus for the detection of arsenic, Cohen 409 



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