EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L, Knight. 



EDITOBIAX DEPABTMENTS. 



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



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers |g\^; ^J^llingee. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology 0^' ^- ^l^^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops— G. M. Tuckeb, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



[C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 Foods and Human Nutrition ] H. L. Lang. 



IC. F. Walton, Jr. 

 Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. 

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



Veterinary Medicine {J^- ^; f^?' 

 Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Mebritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Mooee. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIII, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: T'age- 

 Fourth Convention of the International Association of Dairy and Milk 



Inspectors 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 709 



Notes 794 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Study of soft resins in sulphured and unsulphured hops in storage, Russell 709 



Amount of arsenic in solution when lead arsenate is added, Ellett and Grissom. . 710 



Two rapid methods for determining potassium, Crotogino 710 



Greeff' s method for the volumetric estimation of fluorin, Bellucci. 710 



Apparatus for estimation of very minute quantities of carbon dioxid, Tashiro 711 



The estimation of nitrogen in Norwegian saltpeter, Busvold 711- 



Determination of nitrogen in mixtures of calcium nitrate and cyanamid, Stutzer. 711 



The vegetation test as a basis for fertilizer analysis, Mitscherllch 711 



The estimation of silicic acid in natural waters, Winkler 711 



Note on a new apparatus for use with the Winkler method, Shoub 711 



Nitrogen-protein table, Callaway - - - - 711 



Apparatus for determination of fat by the Roese-Gottlieb method, Brinsmaid . . 711 



The unsaponifiabJe constituents of fats, Marcusson and Meyerheim 711 



The detection of plant fats in animal fats, Sprinkmeyer and Diedrichs 712 



The estimation of carbohydrates, IV, Davis and Sawyer 712 



Utility of the Tollens-Ki'iiger method for pentosans, Fallada et al 713 



The present position of the chemistry of starch, Pringsheim 713 



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