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^^^-^j^_ 



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



T7- u r\ fJ- I- SCHULTE. 



FieldCrops|j Q j^^^^^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Hum^.n Nutrition — C. F. Langwortky, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



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



Economic Zoology and Entomology — w. A. Hooker. 



■„■ . . -vr J- • fW. A. Hooker. 



Vetermary Medicine j^. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. » 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education ] q ' jr l . j^^g * 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVII, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: 



The semicentennial of the National Department of Agriculture 701 



The quarter centennial of the experiment station system 708 



Recent work in agricultural science 712 



Notes 799 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



Phytin and pyrophosphoric acid esters of inosit, II, Anderson 712 



Experiments with the castor bean lipase, Falk and Nelson 712 



Role of electrolytes in the action of ferments of animal origin, Bierry 712 



The hydrolytic action of hydrogen peroxid, Neuberg and Miura 712 



Ignidon of precipitates without the use of the blast lamp, Walker and Wilson. 713 



Precipitating r.gf^nts for amino acids, Neuberg and Kerb * 713 



A delicate method for determining minute quantities of chlorophyll, Jacobson. 713 



Colorimetric determination of phosphoric acid in arable soils, Herrera 713 



Determination of moisture in cereals and cereal products, Fomet. 713 



The determfjiation of sugar in natural substances, Neuberg and Ishida. 714 



The com-oodtion of Fehiing's solution as used at the present time, Luning 714 



The amount of formic acid in honey, Fincke 714 



The analysis of Aonegar, Pc„terson 714 



Analysis of paprika, De Sigmond and Vuk 715 



The detection of benzoic acid in foods and condiments, Polenske 715 



Determin tio: of the total solids iu milk, Splittgerber 715 



The chlorin content of milk, Poetschke 715 



Determining fat in milk according to Rose-Gottlieb method, Rupp and Miiller. 715 



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