EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



KDITEI) HY 



A. (J. TRUE, Ph. 1)., Director, 



AND 



E. W. AiXEN, Pn. D., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Fanniufi;, and Dairying. 

 W. II. Beal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (iucluding methods ol" analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

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

 -Horticulture, Entomology, and Veterinary Science. 



F. H. Hall— Field Crops. 



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



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

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. 6. 



Editorial notes: Page. 

 A suggestion to agricultural investigators drawn from the science of 



economics 445 



The Association of German Experiment Stations 446 



The ninth annual convention of the Association of German Agricultural Exper- 

 iment Stations, 1896, Oliver L. P^assig 447 



Recent work in agricultural science 454 



Notes 538 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The behavior of paracasein toward rennet, O. Hammarsteu 454 



On the peculiar relations of solubility of barium sulphate, R. Fresenius nnd 



E. Hintz 454 



The hydrolysis of raOinose by soluble^ ferments, E. Bourquelot 456 



Comparisons of methods of determining citrate-soluble phosphoric acid in 



Thomas slag, M. Passon 456 



On the quantitative determination of potash, J. H. Vogel and H. Hacfcke 457 



The determination of phosphoric acid in medicinal wines, F. (ilaser and K. 



Miihle 158 



Addition of formol to milk and a rii]>i(l method of detecting it, G. Deniges 45!) 



Butter examination, C. Aschman 459 



The estimation of diastatic power in malt, W. G. Sykes and C. A. Mitchell 459 



A method for the determination of the diastatic power of malt, A. R. Ling 459 



The estimation of the ready-formed sugars of malt, G. H. Morris 460 



The determination of dextrose, levulosc, and saccharose as osazone, C. J. Lint- 



ner and E. Kr<')ber 460 



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