EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



A. C. TRUE, Ph. D., Director, 



AND 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying. 

 W. H. Beal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including methods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

 C. F. Laxgworthy, Ph. D. — Foods and Animal Production. 



F. C. Ken yon, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 



J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 



With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. X, No. 2. 



Page. 



Editorial notes : Agricultural experiment stations in Japan 101 



Physical and meteorological researches, principally on solar rays, made at the 

 station of agricultural climatology at the observatory of Juvisy, Camille 



Flammarion 103 



Recent work in agricultural science 115 



Notes 199 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Sulphuric acid as a reagent in the analysis of fatty acids, E. Twitchell 115 



Needed reform in the analytical methods for fodders and feeds, E. Schulze.. .. 115 

 Report of the chemist, R. C. Kedzie 116 



BOTANY. 



Root tubercles and their production by inoculation, D. H. Otis 119 



Concerning Alinit 120 



The ash of epiphytes, R. C. Kedzie 120 



Report of the botanist, C. F. Wheeler 121 



FERMENTATION — BACTERIOLOGY. 



The unorganized ferments, or enzyms, concerned in the brewing and distilling 



industries, I. O'Sullivan 122 



Red yeasts, Katheriue E. Golden and C. E. Ferris 122 



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