EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



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



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Zootechny, Dairying, and Agrotechny — E. W. Morse. 



Agricultural Chemistry — W. H. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and 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. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Dr. Samuel William Johnson, deceased 201 



Recent work in agricultural science 207 



Notes 296 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



The preservation of iron and stool, Cushman 207 



Method for determination of nitrogen in small amounts, Mitschcrlich el al 208 



The determination of total nitrogen according to Mitschcrlich, Merres 209 



Use of nitron in solutions containing organic matter, Franzen and Lohmann.. 209 



The determination of ammonia without a condenser, Davis 209 



Phosphoric acid by Pemberton's and von Lorenz's method, Hissink 209 



Determining phosphoric acid in Thomas phosphate powder, Leavens 209 



A rapid method for the determination of total potassium in soils, Shedd 209 



The determination of carbon by means of the bomb calorimeter. Fries 209 



Rapid and direct estimation of water in foods and other materials, Thorner. . . 210 



The chemical constitution of the proteins, Plimmer 210 



Hydrolysis of egg white with sodium hydroxid, Skraup and Hummelberger. . . 210 



Hydrolysis of vitellin from the hen's egg, Osborne and Jones 210 



Hydrolysis of the muscle of scallo]), Osborne and Jones 210 



Electrolytes and colloids. The ])hysical state of gluten, Wood and Hardy. . . . 210 



Estimation of muscle albumin and myosin in meat, Bonamartini 210 



The examination of flour, Schaffnit 211 



On the determination of reducing sugars, Zerban and Naquin 211 



Use of temperature corrections in polarizations of raw cane sugar, Browne. . . . 211 



The detection of caramel in vanilla extract. Woodman and Newhall 211 



The Schmitt process for total extract material in wine, Scurti and De Plato. . . 211 



The determination of total sulphur in urine, Folin 211 



The determination of rice hulls in feeding stuffs, Schroder 211 



Milk testing without apparatus, Michaud 211 



A new apparatus for the determination of catalase in milk, BiutI and Staub. . 212 



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