EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITOUIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



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



Field ('roi)s — 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. 



Rural Engineering — 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultuial Education — D. J. Crosby. 



COxNTENTS OF VOL. XIX, NO. 12. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Third session of the Graduate School of Agriculture 1101 



Recent work in agricultural science 1108 



Notes 1195 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Lectures on enzyms of bacteria, Fuhrmann 1108 



The polypeptidphosphoric acids (paranucleic acids) of caseins, Reh 1108 



The tryptic digestion of egg albumin, Levene and Beatty 1108 



The constituents of the essential oil of nutmeg. Power and Salway 1108 



Contribution to the study of tannin, Cavazza 1108 



Determination of total nitrogen in the presence of chlorids, Richardson 1108 



Determination of sodium and potassium in silicates, Thomsen 1 109 



Determination of phosphoric acid in Thomas slag by the Grete method, Ketner. 1109 



Method for determination of ammonia in wateis, Corsini 1109 



On the importance of the qualitative detection of iron in water, Klut 1109 



Ash constitutents of cereals, ( iamble 1109 



Loss of phosphoric acid in ashing of cereals, Leavitt and LeClerc 1109 



New metliod for rapid estimation of dry matter in wheat gluten, Bremer 1109 



Determination of starch in potatoes. Pellet and Metillon 1 109 



The Ley lioney test, Koebner 1 109 



The examination of egg and milk noodles, Pliicker 1110 



The detection of chicory in coffee, Kreis 1110. 



Method for the determination of alcohol in wine, Duboux and Dutoit 1110 



Alcoholic strength of wines, Perkins 1110 



Determination of tartaric acid in cider, Le Roy 1110 



Schardinger reaction for differentiating between raw and cooked milk, Hesse. 1110 



Rapid methods for determining moisture in butter, Harcourt and Fuhner 11 10 



The caprylic acid determination in butter fat, Dons 1111 



Estimation of cocoanut oil in liutter, Ross and Race 1111 



The Polenske number, Fritzsche 1111 



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