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., M. D. 

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



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology j^J/ g" ^^^' ^^' ^' 



17- IJ n fJ- I- SCHULTE. 



Field Crops |j Q j^^^^j^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Lang worthy. Ph. D. 



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



Economic Zoology and Entomology — -W. A. Hooker. 



-.r . . AT J- • /W. A. Hooker. 



\etermary MedicineJL. ;v. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering — ■ — ■ 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF \'OL. XXIIl, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The agricultural side of irrigation 601 



International congress on human nutrition 605 



William Henry Brewer, deceased 607 



Recent work in agricultural science 609 



Notes 696 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Small encyclopedic dictionary of agricultural chemistry, Passon 609 



Electrolytic reduction of nitric acid, Patten 609 



The electrolytic reduction of nitric acid, II, III, Patten and McCaughey 609 



The complexity of the humus extract of soils, Shorey 610 



The availability of soil phosphates, Kelley - 610 



Method of determining cellulose-decomposing power of soil, Christensen 610 



The formation of gluconic acid by the olive-tubercle organism, Alsberg 611 



New method for extracting a phosphatid from plants, Contardi 611 



The chemistry of barley spelts, Geys - 611 



About the nonnitrogenous extracts in feeding stuffs, Scurti 611 



On the heat coagulation of proteins. Chick and Martin 612 



Monoamine acids from proteins hydrolyzed with acids, Osborne and Jones 613 



Utilizing anaphylaxis for differentiating proteids, Uhlenhiith and llaendel 613 



Concerning our method of nitrogen estimation, Mitscherlich 613 



A source of error in estimating ammonia, Barral 6|3 



The gravimetric determination of the phosphates, Maude - - - 613 



Determination of sulphur and l)arium in the jiresence of alkali salts, Phelps. . 613 



Some improved methods of dairy chemislry analysis 613 



Moisture determination in cheese with the Soxhlet oven, von Sobbe 614 



I 



