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, Soils, and Fertilizers {^; ^^; TBiiLiNGER. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology ^y g" gj^y ^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crons F' ^- ^chulte. 

 j^ieia t-ropsjj j^ luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition {^ ^- \f^V^''^''''^' ^'^- ^- ^' ^''^ 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming j^^ j^ Mooke 



veterinary Memcl„e{«;-^H»K^. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullingeb. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education {^- ^. ^ank^^^^^ 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 36, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The Federal Aid Vocational Education Act 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 710 



Notes 796 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



The chemical constitution of starch. — A review, Thomas 710 



Further notes on the essential oils of Australian Myrtaceae 710 



Distribution of nitrogen in coagidum and seriun of Hevea latex, Eaton and Day. . 710 



Silage apd silage fermentation, Lamb 710 



Philippine beeswax. Brill and AgcaoiU 711 



Relation between the toxicity and volatility of creosote oils, Bateman 711 



The sulphonphthalein series of indicators, Lubs and Acres 711 



Some comparisonsof methods for determining nitrogen in soils, Latshaw 711 



Total carbon in soil by wet combustion, SchoUenberger 711 



Analyses of fertilizer samples taken with different samplers. Carpenter 711 



The action of mineral acids on natural phosphate, Kazakov 711 



The decomposition of calcium phosphate by acetic acid, Chirikov and Khardin. 712 



Extraction of phosphoric acid from phosphorite, Kochetkov and Koblikov. . . . 712 



Extraction of phosphoric acid from natural phosphates, II, Kazakov 712 



