EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology, SoHs, and FertiUzersj^- H- ^J^^^^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology/^- ^ ' Bq^d ^' ^' ^' 



T?4^1.1 P^^r^o/J- I- SCHULTE. 



Field Cropejj ^ l^ckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutritionj^- ^^j Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming|j^j ^ Moore 



Veterinary Medicmej™"; A. Hooked- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education{C- H. Lane^^^^_ 

 Indexes — ^M. D. Mooee. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 36, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The experiment stations and the war 601 



The coordination of science and practice in agriculture 604 



Recent work in agricultural science 609 



Notes 694 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Preliminary notes on the carbohydrates of the Musci, Mason 609 



The destruction of pentoses in the course of alcoholic fermentation, Pellet 609 



The mode of action of plant peroxidases. Reed 609 



The relation between oxidase and catalase in plant tissues, Reed - - 610 



Elasticity of coagulimi produced in cows' milk by rennet, AUemann and Schmid 610 



A contribution to the bacteriology of silage, Sherman 611 



Minutes of evidence taken on edible and oil-producing nuts and seeds 611 



Report of Committee on Edible and Oil-Producing Nuts and Seeds 611 



Watermelon seed from the Sudan 611 



The essential oil of Cinnamomum oliveri, or Brisbane sassafras, Hargreaves 611 



A method for the estimation of very small amounts of potassium, Hamburger. . 611 



New method for estimating lime and potash in soils, Keitt and King 611 



The ammoniacal nitrogen of peats and humus soils, Elhs and Morison 612 



Dilute acids and the phosphorus compounds of the soil, Russell and Prescott. 612 



The nature of the phosphates contained in mineral phosphates, Robertson 613 



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