EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., ChieJ, Office of ExperinunU Stations. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knig;ht. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMEKTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotcchny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and FertilizersL • ^, • Trullixger. 



. ■ , , T. T, . • , AT>^ .-n ^u ^ jW. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology|^ j, Boyd. 



■m ^J r: fJ. I. ScHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj j^ ^^^^^^^^ 



Horticulture and Forestry — E J. Glasson. 

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

 T, , J, -CI -KJ i- ■*■■ /C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutntion-jjj ^ Lang 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farmingjj^ j^ Moore. 



,, . . >. J- • fW. A. Hooker. 



\etennary Medicinejj, jj Nollau. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger, 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Educationjgj- ^; 1^^^^,^^,^, 



Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 37, NO. 6. 



Recent work in agricultui'al science 501 



Notes 600 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AOROTECIINY. 



The essentials of chemical physiology', Halliburton 501 



International catalogue of scientific literature. D — Chemistrj' 501 



Annual chemical directory of the United States, 1917, edited by Lovelace 501 



The physical properties of colloidal solutions. Burton 501 



The proteins of the peanut, Arachis hypogxa, II, Johns and Jones 501 



Levulose the preponderant sugar of apple juices, Eoff, jr 502 



Sedoheptose, a new sugar from Sedum spectabile, I, La Forge and Hudson 502 



Rotary powers of some new derivatives of gentiobiose, Hudson and Johnson. . . 502 



The inosit phosphoric acids of cottonseed meal, Rather 502 



The chemistry of wood, Scliorger 502 



Chemical composition of higher fractions of maple wood creosote, Pieper et al . 502 



Toxicity to a wood-destroying fungus of maplewood creosote, Pieper et al 502 



Application of Chodat's paracresol-tyrosinase reaction, Breslauer 502 



A course in food analysis, Winton 503 



Device for evaporating solutions to a definite volume, Plaisance and Pervi er . . 503 



An evaporating bath of seasand heated by steam, Peterson 503 



Handling laboratory solutions by suction, Beals 503 



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