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^ g ' w ' Tillman 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologj-|^; g- fo^'f ' ^^' ^' 



■r,. 1 1 n^^^JJ. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj q r^^kin. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



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



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



VeterinaryMedicine{W.A_-Ho^OKEn. 



Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. ■ '"•■■'.•<y 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. . , , ». 



Agricultural Education/^- ^ lTne ^* ' >-:c !. [ 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVII, NO. 6. 



Page. 



Recent work in agiicultural science 501 



Notes 600 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Studies in protein hydrolysis, Foreman 501 



Investigation of proteins, Obermayer and Wilhelm 501 



Following proteolysis in cheese with the formol-titrametric method, Gratz 501 



A brief investigation on the estimation of lecithin, Collison 502 



Tests of the behavior of pentoses in fermenting mixtures, Cross and Tollens 502 



The mannit obtained from asparagus juice, Tollens 502 



Studies on oxidizing enz^-ms, Bernard and Welter 502 



The von Lorenz method for determination of phosphorus, Neubauer and Liicker. 503 



Estimation of nitrites in potable waters, Elsdon 503 



Determination of calcium in the presence of magnesium, Carron 503 



Determination of soluble arsenic in lead arsenates, Curry and Smith 504 



Determination of saltpeter in meat, Tillmans and Splittgerber 504 



Detection of alum in flour and bread, Lenz 504 



Determination of the tin in tinplate used for canning food, Beveridge 505 



Detection of saponin in beverages and foods by the hemolytic method, Sormani . 505 



Detection of saponin, Riihle 505 



Behavior of milk to ammonium sulphate and method for lactose, Salkowski. . . 506 



In regard to the fat of woman's milk, Arnold 506 



The composition and examination of cow's and goat's milk, Alpers 506 



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