EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



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. 



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



Agrotechny, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — R. D. Milner. 



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



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 



Rural Engineering — 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIX, NO. 7. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



Changes in location of station men 601 



Factors which contribute to desirability of position 603 



Necessity for permanency in the human ecjuipment 606 



Carl von Voit, deceased 607 



Recent work in agricultural science 610 



Notes 696 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



Heat of evaporation of water, Smith , 610 



The atomic weights of nitrogen and silver, Richards and Forbes 610 



A revision of the atomic weight of potassium, Richards et al 610 



Determining carbon and hydrogen in organic substances, Breteau and Leroux. 610 



Hydrolysis of excelsin, Osborne and Clapp 610 



Hydrolysis of hordein, Osborne and Clapp 611 



Hydrolysis of legumin from the pea, Osborne and Clapp 611 



The proteins of the pea, Osborne and Harris , 611 



Meat analysis under the German law of May 30, 1902, Salkowski 611 



Identification of protein in sausage inspection, Popp ..... 611 



The growth of the chemistry of culinary fats, Arnold 611 



The tristearin content of beef and mutton tallow, Burner .■ . 611 



Investigations on foreign fats in lard, Leys 611 



Note on the determination of crude fiber, Street and Allen 612 



Buckwheat products. Proposed standards of composition, Street 612 



The carbohydrates of sugar-beet pulp. Street 612 



The latest investigations on the subject of starch 612 



Rapid estimation of water in sirups, massecuites, etc.. Main 613 



Estimation of sugar in dried beet chips, Slobinski 613 



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