EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor : E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Chief, Office of Experiment Stations. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAI, DEPABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Noixau. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {^-^-^^^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology {^; ^' g J^^' ^^' ^' 



Tni^i/i o-^^c /J- I- SCHTJLTE. 



Field Crops |j j^ luckett. 



Horticutture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Economic Zoologj' and Entomology — W. A. Hooker, D. V. M. 



Foods and Human Nutritionjg- F. ^a^^^orthy, Ph. D.. D. Sc. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming j^j j^ Moobe. 



Veterinary Medicine {j;-^-^?,!™- 



Rural Engineering — R. W, Tbtjllingeb. 

 Rural Economics — E. Meebitt. 



Agricultural Education {g-^; Ip^'Vhmann. 

 Indexes — M, D. Moobe. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 36, NO. 6. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 501 



Notes 599 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — ^AGROTECHNY. 



The arsenates of lead, II, McDonnell and Smith 501 



Yeast protein, Neuberg 501 



The organic phosphoric acid of starch, Northrop 501 



The occurrence of chitin and cellulose in bacteria. Van Wisselingh 501 



The poisonous principle of poison oak {Rhus diversiloba), McNair 501 



On the constituents of poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron), Acree 502 



Lignoceric acid from rotten oak wood , Sullivan 502 



Relation between the physical and chemical constants of oils and fats. Backer. . 502 



Storage changes in vegetable and animal oils, Gardner 502 



Thefruit of Smilax rotundifolia, Rogers 502 



The fruit of Vaccinium corymbosuvi, Harris and Thrams 502 



The cause of the ureolytic action of soy beans, Wester 503 



The separation of oxidase reactions from the catalase reaction. Reed 503 



Relation of oxidase reactions to changes in hydrogen ion concentration, Reed . . 503 



Conductivity of solutions at different frequencies, V-VII, Taylor and Acree. . 503 



Effect of pressure on potential of hydrogen electrode, Loomis and Acree 503 



Review: The preparation of conductivity water, Kendall 504 



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