EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Pii. I)., 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. Milnek. 



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. lo. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Conference on the conservation of national resources 901 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1908-9 905 



Recent work in agricultural science 910 



Notes 996 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 

 agricultur.\l chemistry. 



Synthetical chemistry in its relation to biology, Fischer 910 



Hydrolysis of crystalline globulin of squash seed, Osborne and Clapp 910 



The hydrolysis of hordein, Kleinschmitt 910 



The specific rotation of proteids of cereal flours, Lindet and Ammann 910 



Concerning glutamins, II, Schulze and Godet 910 



Concerning starch, Bloemendal 910 



The activity of trypsin and a simple method for determining it. Gross 910 



On the equilibrium weights of ammonia, Haber and Le Rossignol 910 



Contribution to the knowledge of calcium carbonate, II and III, Meigen 910 



Titrimetric determination of phosphoric acid by means of uranium, Repiton. . . 91 1 



Chemical soil and fertilizer analysis, Mitscherlich 91 1 



The colorimetric determination of nitrogen in soils, Chouchak and Pouget 911 



A method of determining small amounts of nitrogen in water, Korschun 912 



Volumetric determination of magnesium in water, Frankforter and Cohen 912 



Contribution to the determination of oxygen in water, Cronheim 912 



The polarimetric determination of sucrose. III, Watts and Tempany 912 



The polarimetric determination of starcli, Ewers 912 



Determining the starch in barley by means of polarizaticm, Windi.sch 911? 



Estimation of starch in commercial materials, Parow and Neumann 913 



Composition of cacao crude fiber, Matthes and Streitbergei- 9i;} 



Comparison of methods for determination of alkalinity of ash. Lythgoe 913 



New method of determining organic acid in fruits and vegetal)les, All)ahary 913 



The determination of tartaric acid, v<m Ferentzy 913 



The determination of tartaric acid in cider, Le Roy , 913 



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