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< -^y" -g' l^j^^ ' 



IT'- 1J n fJ- I- SCHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj q r^^^in. 



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. 



XX , • nf A- ■ /W. A. Hooker. 



\etennaryMedicine|L. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIII, NO. 6. 



Editorial notes: P*^®- 



The agricultural library 501 



Encouragement of research within the agricultural faculty 504 



Recent work in agricultural science 508 



Notes 597 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — ^AGROTECHNY. 



Proceedings of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1909, ed. by Wiley . 508 



The rate of solution of casein, Robertson 510 



On the refractive indexes of solutions of certain proteins, Robertson 510 



The distribution of nitrogenous bodies in woman's milk, Frehn 511 



The champignon, an indol-producing plant, Lowy 511 



Ascertaining the physical and chemical constants of goose fat, Mayer 511 



Acid-soluble phosphorus compounds of some feeds. Hart and Tottingham 511 



The spontaneous heating of hay, Boekhout and De Vries 511 



The analysis of silicate and carbonate rocks, Hillebrand 511 



Plasticity and coherence of clays and loams, Atterberg 511 



Examination of peat litter, Wid^n 512 



A new method for estimating the oxygen content of water, Maucha 512 



In regard to the water content of rye and wheaten flours, Rammstedt 512 



Isolation of the creatinin from meat and other extracts, Micko 512 



Phosphorus in flesh, Trowbridge and Stanley ; 512 



Technique of detecting intracellular ferments, Abderhalden and Pringsheim . . 512 



Biological differentiation of the proteids in foods and blood stains, Mezger 513 



Biological differentiation of milk proteids, Bauer 513 



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