EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Associate Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — Sybil L. Smith. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {} V ' d H ' L uckett. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology |^; e'boyd.« ^ D * 



Field Crops — J. D. Luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



]C. F. Lang worthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 Foods and Human Nutrition I Sybil L. Smith. 



J Elizabeth B. Bower. 



Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Dairy Farming C^ j ^g LLE y 



, T . . „, ,. . fW. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary Medicine | gYML u gMn , H 



Rural Engineering — K. W. Trullinger. 1 



IE. Merritt. 

 M. Lenobh Flint. 

 Louise Marbut. 



Agricultural Education {£■; D ™- 



1 Marie T. Spethmann. 



Indexes— Amelia B. Deans. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 40, No. 2. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The Rotfaamsted Station in war time 101 



Suggestions for agricultural education and research in Victoria.. 105 



Recent work in agricultural science 109 



Notes 199 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



Progress of chemistry during the last quarter of a century, McPherson__ inn 



Progress of chemistry for 1917. edited by Cain and Greenaway 109 



Compendium of physiological chemistry, Arthus 109 



The application of electrolysis in chemical industry, Hale 109 



Replacement of platinum in electrolytic apparatus, Nicolardot and Boudet- 109 



The proteins of the peanut. Ararhis lu/pogcea, III, Johns and Jones H>:i 



The hydrolysis of kafirin, Jones and Johns 110 



Note on the preparation of gulonic lactone. La Forge 1 10 



The distillation of cellulose and starch, Pictet and Sarasin 110 



Chemical studies in some marine alga?, Matsui 110 



1 On leave of absence for military service. 



