EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Associate Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAL DEPABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — Sybh. L. Smtth. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers |j 'j^ Luckett. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology | ^" j,' ^qyo. ' 



T^ ij /-. fJ. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Crops |^ j^ Luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. .T. Glasson. 



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



_ , ^ „ ^, ^ ... fC. P. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutrition [^^^^^^^ j^ Pkitcheit. 



^ . . , -^ . „ . fD. W. May. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming |^_ j^ Mooee. 



_ ^ . Ti, ^- ■ fW. A. Hookek. 



Veterinary Medicine jg^^^ ^ g^^^^^^ 



Rural Engineering — R. W. TBtrxLiNGEK. 

 Rural Economics — -E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education |j^^^ ^ Spetthmann. 

 Indexes — M. D. Mooee. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 38, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: , . . , i!; 



The first decade of the International Institute of Agriculture 7Ui 



Recent work in agricultural science • 708 



Notes. 



797 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



The physical ehemistry of the proteins, Robertson 708 



A detailed method for the preparation of histidin, Jones 708 



The distillation of cellulose and starch in vacuo, Pictet and Sarasm 708 



Enzyms concerned in decomposition of glucose and mannitol. Grey 709 



Studies on enzym action.— XIV, Experiments on lipolytic actions, Fa,lk. .. ... 709 



Method of specific coagulation with pancreatic juice, London and Pakhotma. 710 



Improvements in bacteriological media.— I, Substitute for ' ' nutrose, " Wallis. 710 



Method for preparation of uniform collodion membranes for dialysis, Farmer. 710 



Oxidation of ammonia to oxids of nitrogen, Adam 710 



The preparation of cyanamid, Osterberg and Kendall. . -.-.---: - ■ - 711 



Dried blood in agiiculture ; its importance and adulteration, birot and Joret. . 7ii 



Ratio of total nitrogen to soluble nitrogen in flour, Rousseaux and Sirot 712 



Soluble nitrogenous matter as index of baking value, Rousseaux and Su-ot. . . 712 



The catalase activity of American wheat flours, Bailey 712 



OC Wheat bran, its substitution and adulterations, Collin 7U 



'— Poisonous bread and flour: Determination of sapotoxins, Stcecklin 712 



*-^ On the estimation of amino-acid nitrogen in the blood, Okada 713 



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