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 j^" J^" Lqng^' ^^' ^' 

 Field Crops{J:IjS---: 



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 and Entomology — W. A. Hooker 

 Veterinary Medicine{W. A. HOOK.H. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIII, NO. 3. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Agriculture as first year science 201 



Recent work in agricultural science 210 



Notes 297 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Annual reports on the progress of chemistry for 1909, edited by Cain 210 



The chemistry of milk and dairy products for the year 1908, Siegfeld 210 



Report on the progress of milk chemistry and dairying for 1909, Grimmer... 210 



About carbenzym, Falk and Sticker 210 



A theory of oxydase reactions. — Manganese and iron-free oxydases, Bach 210 



A rapid method for extracting and purifying plant oxydases. Bach 210 



Nitrogen and ash constituents of some ornamental plants, Hebertand Truffaut. 210 



Some organic Ijases in cabbage {Brassira olrrarea), Yoshimura 211 



Contributions to the chemistry of whortleberries, Griebel 211 



About oleuropeine of olives, Bourquelot and Vintilesco 21 1 



Simple or mixed glycerids in butter fat, Siegfeld 211 



The effect of light and air on butter fat, Nestrelajew 211 



Enzym-chemical studies of Edam cheese ripening, Van Dam 212 



The colors employed for foodstuffs, Gautier et al 212 



Agricultural-chemical m thods, Haselhoff 213 



The microscopical examination of drugs, foods, and textile fabrics, Schneider. 213 



Kjeldahl determination for nitrogen, Neuberg 213 



Determination of nitric and nitrous nitrogen, Salle 213 



Detection of nitrates in the presence of oxidizing substances, Pozzi-Escot 213 



Analysis of Chili saltpeter, Virgili 213 



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