EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Associate Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — Sybil L. Smith. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fert.ilizers|J^-j)^L^^^^-^^_ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology-^ vy" jp' g„YD ' 



Field CropsH- J, Sch^^™; 



'■ [J . D. LUCKETT. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson 

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

 Foods and Human Nutritionjf ;,;;• Langworthy^^^^^ D., D. Sc. 

 [Louise B. Pritchett. 



Zootechny, Dairjdng, and Dairy rarming|j^^- -^ ' h^q^^ 

 Veterinary Modidne{|'; A. Hoc™- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education{F-^E^HE;^^-^^^^^^_ 



Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. 38, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: P^g«- 



Agriculture under reconstruction 401 



The place of the experiment stations in a reconstruction program 405 



Recent work in agricultural science 409 



Notes 498 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



Relation of some of the rarer elements in soils and plants, Robinson et al 409 



Influence of carbon monoxid on velocity of catalytic hydrogenation, Maxted. . 409 



The fats and fatty acids of the grain sorghums, P>ancis and Friedemann 410 



The seeds of Echinocystis orcgana, Daughters 410 



Analytical examination of acorns and horse chestnuts. Baker and Hulton 410 



Division of chemistry, annual report, 1915-16, Marchand 411 



A simple and eflicient filtering tube, Thornton, jr 411 



Utilization of fuller's earth for chemical separations, Seidell 411 



Treatment of corks used in Soxhlet and other extraction apparatus, Ward 411 



Preparation of xiir-Doi'^a'l permanganate solutions, Halverson and Bcrgeim 412 



Proximate quantitative method for rubidium and csesium in plant ash, Robinson. 412 



5 Method for the determination of the amount of sugar in baked articles 412 



3-, Detection of alum in flour, Medri 412 



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