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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED 15 Y 



A. C. TKUE, Ph. ]>., Director, 



AND 



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

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



Agricultural Engineering. 

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

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



F. C. 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. 6. 



Pago. 



Editorial notes : Studies on the iulluence of climate on crops 501 



The methods of determining the digestibility of feeding stuffs, O. Kellner 501 



Recent work in agricultural science 51 1 



Notes 600 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The proteids of lupine seeds, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell 514 



Effect of minute quantities of acid on the solubility of globulin in salt solu- 

 tions, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell 515 



The proteids of the sunflower seed, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell 516 



Proteids of the cowpea, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell 517 



Proteid of the white-podded Adznki bean, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell. . 518 



The amount and properties of the proteids of the maize kernel, T. B. Osborne. 519 

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



Bottcher 520 



BOTANY. 



Lability and energy in relation to protoplasm, O. Loew 522 



The formation of mannan in Amorphophallus honjdk, M. Tsukamoto 523 



The formation of asparagin in plants under different conditions, U. Suzuki.. . 523 



Can old leaves produce asparagin by starvation ? T. Miyachi 523 



On the relative valne of asparagin as a nutrient for phanerogams and fungi, 



T. Nakaiuura ...,„.. 524 



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