EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., jLssiatnnl JJim-lor. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry aud Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. J). 



Meteorology, Soils, and Eertilizers — \V. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany and Vegetable Pathology — W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — J. L Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. V. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Zootechuy, Dairying, and Dau-y Farming — E. W. Morse. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering — G. A. Griffin. 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXI, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: I'agp. 



Permanency of the station personnel 60J 



Special preparation for station work 60J 



The changed requirements of the station service 604 



Recent work in agricultural science 607 



Notes 692 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The salts of proteins and their role in biological phenomena, Robertson 607 



Hydrolysis of ox muscle, Osborne and Jones 607 



Electrolytes and colloids. The physical state of gluten, Wood and Hardy. . . . 607 



Colloid chemistry; an important branch for the agriculturist, Czermak 607 



Acid soluble phosphorus compounds of feeding materials. Hart and Tottingham . 608 



The occurrence of phosphatids in vegetable and animal substances, Vageler. . . 608 



Intracellular enzyms of lower fungi, especially Penicillium camemberli, Dox. . . 609 



The influence of boric acid on enzym action, Agulhon 609 



A new method for measuring the electrolytic dissociation of water, Hudson. . . . 609 



An improved method of desiccation with some ai)plications, Shackell 609 



Organic acids and acid anhydrids as standards, Phelps and Weed 610 



A change in the Kjeldahl nitrogen method, Sebellen et al 610 



Modified Kjeldahl ayjparatus for estimation of nitrogen, Weston and Ellis 610 



The determination of the total nitrogen by Mitscherlich's method, Schenke. . . 611 



Estimation of phosphoric acid in ashes, Pliicker Gil 



Determination of phosphoric acid 611 



Fuchsin S as a standard solution for nitrites in water, Kastle and Elvove 611 



Polarization and saccharimetry, Sidersky 61 1 



Modified method for polarimetric determination of starch, Thorne and Jeffens. . 61 1 



Determination of mannose, arabinose, xylose, and milk sugar, lIcTzog and Ilort li 6 1 1 



.'\ method for the determination of the caramel content of sugar, Ehrlich 612 



A new color reaction for cholesterin, Ottolenghi 612 



The Bellier reaction for plant oils, Olig and Brust 612 



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