EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. II. 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. Mormax. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIX, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Agriculture in the National Education Association 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 704 



Notes 794 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agrkultlral chemistry. 



A suggestion for a new unit of energy, Armsby 704 



Our present knowledge regarding heat of evaporation of water, Smith 704 



Additional data on structure of protein, Abderhalden and Voitinovici 704 



Heat changes in cleavage of proteids and gelatinoids by ferments, Grafe 704 



H ydrolysis of the albumose of meat extract, Micko 704 



A natural isomer of leucin, Ehrlich 705 



Nitrogen of zein in relation to that of other proteids in maize, Soave 705 



The biochemical function of zein, Soave 705 



Hydrolysis of glycinin from the soy bean, Osborne and Clapp 705 



Hydrolysis of crystalline globulin of squash seed, Osborne and Clapp 705 



The. existence of a tyrosina.^e in wheat bran, Bertram! and Muttermilch 705 



New oil constants, Louise and Sauvage 705 



The "nitron " method for the estimation of nitric acid, (yoUins 705 



Estimation of nitric nitrogen. Van Deventer 705 



Tlie digestion of urine in the Kjeldahl method, Hawk 706 



Determination of constituents of nitrated mixtures, Coffetti and Maderna 706 



On the determination of free phosphoric acid in superphosphates, MiUler 706 



Tlie accuracy of analysis of fertilizers, Bousset 706 



Feeding stuffs and fertilizers, Tacke 706 



Elementary analysis of proteids containing phosphorus, Dennstedt 706 



The estimation of stanh in potatf), Pellet and Metillon 706 



I)ete(;tion of rice or maize flour in wheat flour, (iastine 706 



The formation of volatile sulphur compounds in meat, Winton and Bailey.. . 706 



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