EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITOEIAi DEPABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers \^' ,!?• ^^^• 



IR. W. Tbullingeb, 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology j}}/ ^' ^^^s, Ph. D. 



(. \V . Hi. LOYD. 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



fC. F. Langwokthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 H. L. Lang. 

 C. F. Walton, Jr. 

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

 veterinary Me<Ucine{2:-3^-j,Ho™. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Tbullingeb. 

 Rural Economics — E. Mebeitt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Mooee. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME 35, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Rural credits legislation in its relation to the agricultural colleges and 



experiment stations 101 



The Federal Farm Loan Act 104 



Recent work in agricultural science 108 



Notes 196 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The starches of the grain sorghums, Francis and Smith 108 



The variations of gluten, Marchadier and Goujon 108 



Development of sugar and acid in grapes dmring ripening, Alwood et al 108 



The urease of soy beans, De Graaff and van der Zande 109 



On the presence of urease in eoy beana, GroU 110 



The preparation of anhydrous alcohol, Winkler 110 



A simple cell for the determination of hydrogen ion concentration. Long 110 



Aeration and heat distillation in the Kjeldahl method, Falk and Sugiura 110 



Indicators for temporary hardness in water, Norton and Knowles 110 



Material for uniform laws regarding foodstuffs, IV-VI 110 



The determination of volatile oil in liqueurs, Ronnet Ill 



The determination of the volatile oils in Uquetu-s, Muttelet Ill 



Determination of the quantity of fat in cream, Lindet Ill 



Determination of stearic acid in butter fat, Holland, Reed, and Buckley, jr. . . Ill 



The determination of the iodin number of essential oils, Marcille 112 



Determination of benzoic acid in animal foodstuffs, Baumann and Grossfeld. . 112 



Observations on determination of saccharin, Klostermann and Scholta 112 



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