EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology l^/ g' Lq^^^' ' ' 



I?- ij n fJ- I- Schulte. 

 FieldCropsjj Q j^^^^^^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — E. W. Morse. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIII. NO- i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1910-11 1 



Recent work in agricultural science 7 



Notes 97 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Micro-chemistry, Emich 7 



Refractometry and its practical application, Sidersky 7 



Studies with the compensation polariscope, Kovar 7 



Characteristics of the fat of different animals, Raffo and Foresti 7 



A peculiar precipitation of glycogen, Pfliiger 7 



Contributions to our knowledge of plant phosphatids, Winterstein and Stegmann 7 



Contribution to our knowledge of cereal phosphatids, Winterstein and Smolenski . 8 



The phosphatids from wheat germs, Smolenski 8 



A peculiar phosphorus-containing body in ricinus, Winterstein and Stegmann. 8 



A poisonous principle in certain cotton-seed meals, Crawford 8 



[Chemical, physical, and physiological properties of mowrin], Moore et al 8 



Cellase and the diastasic cleavage of cellulose, Bertrand and Holderer 8 



The enzyms of fermentation vinegar, Rothenbach 8 



[Schardinger's reaction with inorganic ferments], Bredig and Sommer 8 



Detecting proteolytic ferments and their antiferments, Mandelbaum 9 



A new method for purifying peroxidases, Deleano 9 



Laboratory methods for organic nitrogen availability, Jones 9 



Volumetric estimation of sulphates, Mitchell and Smith 9 



[Separating calcium and magnesium], McCrudden 9 



A titrametric method for carbon dioxid, Vesterberg 10 



Pohl's method for determining the melting point, Halla 10 



Modified method for determining saponification number, Rupp and Lehmann. 10 



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