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 Fertilizers {W-H. Be al^^^^^^ 



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



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^ngworthy, Ph. D., D. So. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farmingjj^- J ^Mo?re 



VeteriBa^Medicme{l;A.fooK»- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME 35, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 

 The Washington Convention of the Association of American Agricultural 



CoUet^es and Experiment Stations 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 711 



Notes 798 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTtTRAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



The chemical nature of the ' ' vitamins, " I , Williams .^^ 711 



Hydrolysis of albuminous substances from seeds of Arachis hypogaea I Aichnikov . 712 



Influence of alkali and alkaline earth salts on casein, Robertson and Miyake. . . 712 



On the mechanism of oxidase action, Reed 713 



The ferments of pineapple juice, Fouque 713 



The nature of the acid-soluble phosphorus of serum, Greenwald 714 



Factors influencing the lime and magnesia requirements of soils, Maclntire 714 



Method for determination of immediate lime requirements of soils, Maclntire. . 715 



Lime and magnesia in New Zealand soils, Aston 715 



A rapid method for the estimation of calcium oxid in peat soils, Gortner 716 



A rapid method for the estimation of fat in powders, Phillips 716 



The determination of sucrose in cane products by direct polarization, Muller. . 716 



The determination of essences in liquem's, Rocques 717 



Manual for the essence industry, Walter 717 



Canning in glass by the cold pack method, Bell and Root 717 



Possibilities for the utilization of low-grade and surplus fruit, Caldwell 717 



Single-variety ciders and perry, 1913-14, Barker and Grove 717 



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