EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor : IT. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechuy — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. 1)., M. 1). 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers!}^ • ,lf ^^^''■ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology] rtr' ^' -royd ''' ^ 

 Field Crops— G. U. Tucker, Ph. I). 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glassox. 



fC. F. Langwoktijy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 Foods and Uuman Nulrition^H. L. Lang. 



IC. F. Walton. 

 Zootechiiy, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Web.ster. 

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



veterinary Med,c'ine{)y-,^: Ho--. 



Rural Engineering — R. "\V. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 





CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXII. NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: ^ag«- 



Economic aspects of experiment station work 701 



Experimental inquiry and economic inquiry 705 



Relation of the experiment stations to studies in rural economics 706 



Recent work in agricultural science 709 



Notes 797 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Fatty acids and other ether-soluble constituents of feeding stuffs. Rather 709 



Chemical changes during .silage formation, Neidig 710 



Synthetic processes taking place during the autolysis of yeast, Iwanoff 710 



Enzyms of Aspergillus oryzne and their api>lication, Takamine 710 



Studies on enzym action. — XI, Castor bean urease, Falk and Sugiura 710 



Determination of proteolytic activity of panci eas preparations, Long and Barton 710 



Inversion of saccharose by asparaginic acid, Radlberger and Siegmund 711 



The preparation of raffindse, Hudson and Harding 711 



Blood pigment and chlorophyll. — Their close relation, Damm 711 



The constituents of Clematis vitalba, Tutin and Clewer 711 



Organic phosphoric acid of rice, Thompson 712 



Presence of a glucose in the sunflower, Zanotti 713 



The chemistry of tobacco resins, von Degrazia 713 



The arsenates of load, Tartar and Robinson 713 



Estimation of sulphuric acid, sulphates, potassium, and calcium, Ledoux 714 



A new method for quantitative estimation of potassium, Marshall 714 



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