EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizersj^ ; ^- f I^J;^^^^^^^, 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Patholog |}^/ ^- f J^'^' ^^' ^' 



T^- , , n,.^r.»/J- I- SCHULTE. 



Fielderopsjj j3 LucKETT. 



Horticulture and Forestry— E. J. Glasson. 



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



T-, J J TT TM + •*• fC. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Himian Nutntion-^ tj t t , „„ 



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



Veterinary Medicine{| •^; foL^Su"!" 

 Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics- — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



fC. H. Lani 



\M. T. Spethmann. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 37, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: Paga 



Research and the research worker in relation to National affairs 401 



The development of American technical agricultural journals 405 



Recent work in agricultural science 409 



Notes 496 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Annual reports on progress of chemistry for 1916, edited by Cain et al 409 



Pervaporation, perstillation, and percrystallization, Kober 409 



On the quinone-phenolate theory of indicators, WTiite and Acree 409 



Reducing matter extractable from filter paper, McBride and Scherrer 409 



Preparation of hydrochloroplatinic acid, Rudnick and Cooke 409 



The arsenates of lead. — III, Basic arsenates, McDonnell and Smith 410 



Indirect measurements of rotatory powers of sugars, Hudson and Yanovsky. . . 410 



The preparation of beta glucose, Mangam and Acree 410 



The preparation of xylose, Hudson and Harding 410 



On the cleavage in starch grains, Reuss 410 



Determination of gelatinization temperatures of starches, Dox and Roark, jr 410 



Inflammability of carbonaceous dusts. Brown and Clement 410 



Hydrolysis of the soluble protein of Swede tiurnips, Williams 410 



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