EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizersjj^-^- tJullinger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathologyj-^' ^ ' ggy^ ' 



T7- IJ o fJ. I. SCHTJLTE. 



Field Cropsjj ^ l^.^kett. 



Horticulture and Forestry— E. J. Glasson. 



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



T^ J J TT AT i •4.- fC. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutrition<^g ^ Lang 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farmingj^ jj j^qore. 



-ir i. • Tir J- • /W. A. Hooker. 

 Veterinary Medicine|E ^ Nollau. 



Rural Engineering— R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education|j^- y" Spe^^hji^nn. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 37, NO. 1. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



The response of the experiment stations 1 



The adjustment of theory and practice to war conditions 4 



Recent work in agricultural science 8 



Notes 97 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny . 



Kafirin, protein from Andropogon sorghum, Johns and Brewster 8 



Some proteins from the jack bean, Canavalia ensiformis, Jones and Johns 8 



The proteins of the peanut. — I, Arachin and conarachin, Johns and Jones 8 



The proteins of the colostriun and milk of the cow, Crowther and Raistrick. ... 8 



Protein copper compounds, Osborne and Leavenworth 8 



d-Mannoketoheptose, a new sugar from the avocado, La Forge 9 



A saponin from Yucca Jilamentosa, Chernoff , Viehoever, and Johns 9 



Oxidase activity of plant juices and hydrogen ion concentrations, Bunzell.. 9 



The sampling oi fertilizers. Lodge 9 



Influence of carbohydrates on accuracy of Van Slyke method, Hai't and Sure. . 10 



Estimation of mixtures of four or more carbohydrates, Wilson and Atkins 10 



[Method for analysis of wheat grain, plants, and straw], Headden . ._ 11 



New qualitative test and colorimetric method for estimation of vanillin, Estes . . 12 



Summary of the composition of the wines of current consumption, Filaudeau - . 12 



Adsorption of tin by proteins and the solution of tin by canned foods. Goes. . 12 



The detection of added water in milk in India, Leather 13 



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