EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers-^ t> 'tit' r^^' 



(rl. W . IRI 



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



fW. H. Beal. 



JULLINGER. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Vegetable Pathology/^- ^- g^Y^ ^' ^^- ^' 



Field Crops— G. M. Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutritionj^- F- Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



[ti. L. Lang. LIR»ao 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. »-»okak 



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



Veterinary Medicinej J;^:^; j?°^°^|^- 80TAN1C/ 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. ClAKUtiiSi 



Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXII, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes: 



The new Section of Ai^riculture in the American Association 101 



Some aspects of the field of rural economics 105 



Recent work in agi-icultural science 109 



Notes 198 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Justus von Liebig, Volhard 109 



Handbook of methods in inorganic chemistry, edited by Stabler 109 



Methods of organic chemistry, Gattermann, trans, by Schober and Babasinian. 109 



Progress in chemistry of foods and condiments during 1912, Kuttenkculer 109 



Starch sugar, Wichelhaus 109 



Reducing sugars in the fresh beet root, I ellet 110 



The acid content of fruits, Dunbar and Bigelow 110 



Changes taking place in grass during the process of curing, I leischmann 110 



The micro-organisms found in fermenting tea, Staub and Deuss Ill 



Respiration, decay, self-healing, and composition of potatoes, Henneberg Ill 



Studies of the chemical composition of cotton seed. Hare Ill 



The structure of the soy bean, Wallis 112 



Nitrogen-containing substances in germinating seeds of Viciafaba, Torquati.. 112 



Denitrification as a result of enzym action, Hulme 112 



Specific nature of the intracellular enzyms, I, Abderhalden and Fodor 112 



Specific nature of the intracellular enzyms, II, Abderhalden and Schiff. . — 112 



The speed with which protective enzyms appear, I, Abderhalden and Schiff. . 112 



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