EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 

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



AND 



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

 \Y. H. Beal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including- methods of analysis), .Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

 C. F. LANGWORTHY, Ph. D. — Foods and Animal Production. 



F. ('. Kenyon, Ph. I). — 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. 3. 



Editorial notes: I:| -' • 



Investigation and research in Russia 201 



Some new discoveries on the ripening of cheese 205 



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



Maercker 207 



Recent work in agricultural science '. 219 



Notes 299 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The.determination of the fermentable substances present in cereals, J. Efiront. 219 



A new synthesis in the sugar group. II. J. 11. Fen ton 219 



Melibiose, A. Ban 220 



The formation of mannan in Amorphophallus Jconjak, M. Tsukamoto 220 



The action of diastase on starch, A. R. Ling and J. L. Baker 220 



Tlie quantitative separation of flu- cellulose-like carbohydrates in plants, YV. 



Hoftmeisfer 220 



The proteids of cows' milk, K. Storch 222 



Method of drying sensitive organic substances, C. C. Parsons 223 



On the determination of potash in Stassfurt salts, C. E. Eggertz and L. F. 



Nilson . 223 



The separate determination of total alumina and total iron oxid in phosphates, 



F. Lichtschlag 224 



A simple method for the determination of fat in separated cream. M. Weibull. 224 



Miscellaneous analyses. A. A. Persons 225 



Proceedings of the thirteenth annual convention of the Association of Official 



Agricultural Chemists. H. W. Wiley 226 



BOTANY. 



A preliminary list of Alabama fungi, L. M. Underwood and F. S. Earle 227 



The decomposition of protein during germination, D.N. Prianishnikow 226 



Report of the botanist. P. H.Mell 226 



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