EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



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



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

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



and Agricultural Engineering. 

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

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



Entomology and Veterinary Science. 



J. I. SciiULTE^-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. 10. 



Page. 



Editorial notes: Irrigation investigations of the Department of Agriculture.. 901 



Investigations on the metabolism of milch cows, Oscar Hagcman 903 



Recent work in agricultural science 917 



Notes 1000 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The albuminoid of wheat gluten, K. Morishima 917 



The inversion of sugar by salts, L. Kahlenberg, D. J. Davis, and R. E. Fowler. . 918 



The rapid detection of perchlorate in nitrate of soda, P. Nyssens 918 



On the volatile and insoluble fatty acids in butter, R. Henriqnes 919 



Chemical division of the Rhode Island Station, H. J. Wheeler 919 



BOTANY. 



Systematic plant introduction, D. G. Fairchild 927 



Grass culture in Iceland, P. Teilberg 920 



Gram, chick-pea, or Idaho pea, J. G. Smith 928 



Thirty poisonous plants of the United States, V. K. Chesnut 928 



The seeds and seedlings of some Amentifera', W. W. Rowleeand G. T. Hastings.. 921 



Temperature of plants, F. Schleichert 921 



Movement of plant food before the fall of the leaf, E. Ramann 922 



Starch distribution as affected by fungi, B. D. Halsted 923 



Poisonous properties of wild-cherry leaves, F. W. Morse and C. D. Howard .. 923 



Concerning proteid synthesis in green plants, B. Hansteen 925 



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