EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor : E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Chief, Office of Experimental Station*. 

 Assistant Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAI- DE^ABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Noixatj. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {W- H- g^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology j^* ^ • ^^^s, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — J. I. Schtjlte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition {g ^- ^^''7°^''^^' ^^- ^•' ^- ^^ 



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



Veterinary Medicine {W- ^; ^^«™- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Tehllingek. 



Rural Economics — E. Mebritt. Lli^^ 



Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. " " 



Indexes — M. D. Mooee. iSkW \ 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. 35, NO. 6. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 501 



Notes 596 



SUBJECT LIST OP ABSTRACTS. 



AGBICULTTJBAL CHEMISTBY — AGBOTECHNT. 



Organic agricultural chemistry, Chamberlain 501 



An introduction to the phyaice and chemistry of colloids, Hatschek 501 



Studies on plant colloids, II-VI, Samec et al 501 



Crystalline /3-methyl fructoaid and its tetracetate, Hudson and Brauns 502 



A fourth crystalline pentacetate of galactose, Hudson and Johnson 502 



Determination of phosphoric acid by uranylacetate, Crispo and Tuinzing 502 



Solubility of phosphoric acid in Thomas slag by carbon clioxid, Maschaupt 503 



Experiments on the extraction of potash from wyOmingite, Wells 503 



New apparatus for soil carbonates and new methods for soil acidity, Truog 503 



The analysis of Hawaiian soils, McGeorge 503 



On the determination of small quantities of hydrocyanic acid, Johnson 503 



The microscopy of vegetable foods, Winton, Moeller, and Winton 503 



Quantitative sublimation and its application in food analysis, Gobert 504 



Studies on commercial chicory, Sirot and Joret 504 



Determination of cotton seed and peanuts in feeding stuffs, Ezendam 504 



Action of copper solutions on sucrose. Determination of invert sugar, Saillard . 504 



The determination of sucrose in beet molasses, Saillard 504 



A new species of alcohol-forming bacterium isolated from sugar cane, Owen 505 



The conservation of potatoes by souring, Voltz and Jantzon 505 



Using pulp and chicory dryers to dry the surplus potato crop, Carton 505 



METEOROLOGT. 



The value of high-level meteorological data in forecasting, Fergusson 505 



Report of the chief of the Weather Bureau, 1915 506 



Climatological data for the United States by sections 506 



Climatology of State College, Pennsylvania. — II, Precipitation, Frear 507 



Meteorology for 1913, Edmiston 508 



Ohio wea3ier for 1915, Smith and Patton 508 



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