EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



A. C. TRUE, Ph. D., Director, 



E. W. Allen*, Ph. P., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying. 

 W. H. Bbal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including methods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter II. Evans, Ph. I>. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

 C. P. Langwoethy, Ph. 1). — Foods and Animal Production. 

 P. C. Kexyon, Pir. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 

 J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 

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



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. IX, No. 2. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Metabolism in calves j. 101 



Tlie constitution of fat globules j. 102 



The aims and tendencies of the German agricultural experiment stations, M. 



Maercker 103 



Recent work in agricultural science Ill 



Notes 200 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The determination of citrate-soluble phosphoric acid in Thomas slag, < >. 



Bottcher 114 



The decomposition of carbohydrates by alkalies, F. Pramm 115 



Investigations on arabinose, Berthelot and Andre 115 



BOTANY. 



On the action of light ou diastase and its biological significance, J. R. Green. 116 



The latent life of the Uredineae, J. Eriksson 118 



Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by bacteria from the tubercles on leguminous 



roots, Maze 118 



FERMENTATION — BACTERIOLOGY. 



Concerning a soluble oxidizing ferment of wine, P. Cazeneuve 120 



Bacteria, what they are and what they do, C. E. Marshall 121 



METEOROLOGY. 



Notes on the climatology of the sugar beet, E. M. Boggs l-'l 



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