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 |S^- ^- S^'^^' 



"^•^ IR. W. Trullinger. 



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Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology " 



Field Crops — G. M. Tucker, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition jg ^- Langwortiiy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



yti. L. Lang. 

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

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



veterinary ,.ediclne{«;-VHo-r 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics^E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 E. Boyd. 



LIBRARY 

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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIl NO. i. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



The Washington convention 1 



Some effects of extension development 4 



Renewed importance of agricultural research 6 



Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and. Experi- 

 ment Stations, 1914 8 



Recent work in agricultural science 16 



Notes 94 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Phytin and phytic acid, Clarke 16 



Organic phosphoric acids of wheat bran, Anderson 17 



Carotin, the principal yellow pigment of milk fat. Palmer and Eckles 18 



Lactochi'ome, the yellow pigment of milk whey. Palmer and Cooledge 19 



The nature of enzym action, Bayliss 19 



About the lipase of Chelidonium seeds, Bournot 19 



Formation of humic substances by polypeptids on sugar, Maillard 19 



Colloidal chlorophyll and position in absorption bands, Iwanowski 19 



A dilution colorimeter and error in comparing colors. Stanford 20 



A color reaction for proteins, Lewin • 20 



About the detection of histidin. Inouye 20 



The detection of saponins. Ill, Riihle 20 



Detection and differentiation of saponins by hemolysis, Halberkann 20 



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