EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Associate Editor : 11. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Clieraistry and Agrotechny — Sybil L. Smith. 

 Meteorology, SoiLs, and l^ertnizers{W-jf L^^^^-^^_ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology {^^- e'boyd^' ^'^' ^' 



„.„, , ri c. /J- I- SCHULTE. 



IieldCropsjj j3 LxjcKETT. 



Horticulture and Forestry— E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition |?-£-i^i^«ll««l«7'r^- ^- ^- ^"■- 



\ Louise B. Pritchett. 

 ]NL 

 Moore. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming -ItI" jY" ^^ 

 Veterm»,-,- Medicine {J^^^-HooKEB^ 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education {Lrie'^T.^Spethmann. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 38, NO. 6. 



Page. 



Recent work in ao;ricultural science 501 



Notes .^ ^ 600 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTIJ RAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



The chemistry of colloids 501 



Outline of colloid chemistry, I-III, Bancroft 501 



Swelling of gelatin in polybasic acids and their salts, Fischer and Hooker 501 



The swelling of fibrin m polybasic acids and salts, Fischer and Benzinger. . . . 502 



Liquefaction of gelatin in polybasic acids and salts, Fischer and Coffinan 502 



The diastatic decomposition of inulin in chicory root, Wolff and Geslin 502 



The influence of glycerin on the activity of invertase, Bom'quelot 502 



Toxic and antagonistic effects of salts on ^vine yeast, !Mitra 503 



The water-soluble accessory growth-promoting substance in yeast, I , Drummond 503 



Contributions to biochemistry of pathogenic anaerobes, II, Wolf and Telfer. . . 503 



Contributions to biochemistry of pathogenic anaerobes, lit. Wolf and Harris. . 504 



Influence of phenol and cresylic acid on antitoxic sera, Homer 504 



Use of indicators for hydrogen ion concentration of sera. Homer 505 



The preparation of plant nucleic acids, Clarke and Schryver 505 



The proteins of cow s milk, Osborne, Wakeman, et al . ._ 505 



p^ Adenin and guanin in cow's milk, Voegtlin and Sherwin 506 



^ Standard methods of samplint and analysis and standard samples, Hillebrand. 506 



f— A simple filter for phosphoric acid estimations Jodidi and Kellogg 500 



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