EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAI- DEPAETMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau, 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers { J^'j^l^ck^tt. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology |^; g- g^^^' ^^' ^' 



■m- n /-I /J. I- SCHtTLTE. 



Field Crops |j ^ luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition {f ?i„^-°MTKS"' ""• ''- "^ '" 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming j^^ ^' moSe. 



Veterinary Medicine j^-^; Jo™. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullingee. 

 Rural Economics — E. Mebeitt. 



Agricultural Education {^- ^.^^p^°hmann. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 38, NO. 1. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



The opportunity for individual service 1 



Helping to win the war 4 



Closer relation of station and extension forces 6 



Recent work in agricultural science 8 



Notes 96 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRlCULTURAIi CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Maple sugar: Composition, analysis, effect of environment, Bryan et al 8 



The fermentation of Philippine cacao, Brill 8 



[Notes on essential oils], Puran Singh 8 



The presence of arsenic in hops, Stockberger and Collins 9 



Some enzyms of germinating red gram {Cajanus indicus), Viswanath 9 



Use of textile fibers in microscopic qualitative analysis, Chamot and Cole 9 



An electrically heated and controlled air bath, Schuck 9 



A useful distilling head, Stearns 10 



The separation of aluminum from ii*on by means of ether, Palkin 10 



The deteiTnination of sulphur dioxid, Sweeney, Outcault, and Withrow 10 



Effect of temperature on reaction of lysin with nitrous acid, Sure and Hart 10 



The determination of phytin phosphorus in plant products. Rather H 



The bacteriological examination of food and water. Savage 11 



Method for volatile oil content of citrus fruits, Wilson and Young 11 



Determination of sugar in baked articles 11 



Detection of added water in milk, Ferris 11 



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