EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: 10. W. ALLEN, Ph. i».. Chief, Office of Experiment Stations. 



Associate Editor: II. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL UEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny Sybil L. Smith. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizer {J^ L *S^. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology {^/ J.!' ^J^J 8 ' 1>h ' D ' 



Field Crops — J. D. Luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — B. .!. Glasson. 



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



[C. F. Langworthy, Ph. I)., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutrition {Elizabeth B. Bower. 



1 Sybil L. Smith. 



Moore. 



Schulte. 



/W. A. Hooker. 

 Veterinary Medicine ( Symi L SMmi 



Kural Engineering— R. W. Trullinger. 1 



Rora, Economics {£ SW 



Agrteoltaral Eduction {^ K \'^ scktmmann. 

 Indexes — Amelia 15. Deans. 



Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Dairy Farming | 7 *t ' s " 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 40, No. 1. 



Editorial notes: Pago. 



The present position and outlook of the Btations 1 



Some effects of association 2 



The need for safeguarding agricultural investigation 6 



Recent work in agricultural science 10 



Notes 98 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AOROTECIINY. 



Treatise on applied analytical chemistry, Villavecehia, trans, by Pope 10 



Method for preparing commercial calcium arsenate, Haywood and Smith 10 



Sweet-clover silage in comparison with alfalfa silage, Swanson and Tague 10 



Cholesterol in milk, Denis and Minot 11 



Influence of preparation on weight and refraction of milk serum, Schoorl 11 



The acidity of milk and whey, van Dam 11 



Influence of acidity of milk on velocity of inaotivation, Bouma and Van Dam. 1 1 



A delicate method of determining invert activity, Watanabe and Myers 12 



Role of oxidases and iron in color changes of sugar cane juice, Zerban 12 



Preparation of active decolorizing carbon from kelp, Zerban and Freeland. ... L2 



Russia's production of platinum, Merz L2 



An automatic pipette for the tubing of culture media, Cardot and Vigreux 12 



1 On leave of absence for military service. 



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