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 Fertilizersj]^; ^; Trullinger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathologyj^' g- ^^yd^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops— G. M. Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



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

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

 Veterinary MedicinejJ^- A- Hookek. 



Rural Engineering— R. W. Trullinger. ^' 



Rural Economics — E. Merritt. '^cW VOf^| 



Agricultural Education — C.H.Lane. tiiJTANtrAi 



Indexes— M. D. Moore. ,, ^^'^AU 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXII, NO. 3. 



Recent work in agricultural science 201 



Notes 292 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — ^agrotechnt. 



The simpler natural bases, Barger 201 



Nucleic acids. — ^Their chemical properties and physiological conduct, Jones. . . 201 



The decomposition of sugar in the living cell, Oppenheimer 201 



About plant tallows, Wagner and Lampart 201 



The flower pigments of Antirrhinum majus. — I , Method of preparation, Wheldale . 202 



The flower pigments of Antinhinum niajus. — II, Wheldale and Bassett 203 



Lycopersicin, the red pigment of the tomato, and its development, Duggar 203 



Effect of certain conditions on acidity of tomato fruits, Duggar and Merrill. . . 204 



The nature, value, and limits of biological water analysis, Thienemann 205 



The microscopy of drinking water, Whipple 205 



Report of committee on phosphoric acid, Farnham et al 205 



Triammonium citrate. Hall 205 



About cholesterol and its estimation in fats, Klostermann and Opitz 205 



Method for extremely small quantities of boron, Bertrand and Agulhon 20G 



Rapid estimation of phosphoric acid in baked goods, etc., Sobel 206 



Methods for determining sulphur dioxid in dried fruits, Jaffa 206 



Phosphomolybdic acid for detection of adulteration in saffron, Verda 207 



The estimation of tannin in cider. Spiers 207 



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