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 FerUlizersj^^;^; ||^i^ij,ger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology/^- g ' fj^D ''' ^^ ^* 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutritionj^- ^- La'^^^orthy, Ph. D.. D. Sc. 



Zootechn\', and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. 



Veterinary Medicine!^; ^; Hook.-- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 35, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Agriculture and the war in Europe 601 



Effect of the war on agricultural institutions 605 



Recent work in agricultural science 611 



Notes 697 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Chlorophyll, Cusmano 611 



Bean oil (oil of Phaseolus vulgaris), Witke 611 



The fatty oil from the seed of Styrax japonica, Okada 611 



The galactan of Larix occidentalis, Schorger and Smith 611 



The synthesis of acetaldehyde in fruits, Mliller-Thurgau and Osterwalder 611 



The urease content of certain beans, Mateer and Marshall, jr 612 



Collodion membranes for ultrafiltration and pressure dialysis, Walpole 612 



A rapid filter for turbid liquids, Shuey 612 



Comparing the decolorizing efficiency of charcoals, Wickenden and Hassler — 612 



A new colorimeter, Sammet 612 



A Kjeldahl fume remover, Merkle 612 



The determination of citric-acid-soluble phosphoric acid, Zachariades and Czak . 61.3 



Note on the determination of phosphorus in plant materials. Christie 613 



The determination of sulphur as barium sulphate, Blumenthal and Guernsey. . 613 



Determination of total protein and nonprotein substances of muscle, .Janney. . 614 



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