EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Aeastant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. NT^ ^ 



Agricultural Chemistiy and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. f ■; 1 <'^* 



Meteorologjs Soils, and FertiHzersjW- H- ^|^J^^^^^^ ^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathologyj^^- e'Boyd^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition{^-F. Lang worthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farmingjj^; jy ^^^^^^ 



Veterinary. Medicine{W;^; ^oo^^^^- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 35, NO. 9. 



Page, 



Recent work in agricultural science 801 



Notes 900 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Catalysis and its industrial applications, Job ling 801 



Hydrogen electrode potentials of buffer mixtures, Clark and Lubs 801 



A new "hot-air" Teclu burner, Verbeek 801 



The action of nitric acid on aluminum, SeUgman and Williams 802 



Sanitary studies of baking powders 802 



Determination of bromin and iodin in the presence of chlorids, Winkler 803 



A new method for the volimietric determination of thiosulphate, Sander 804 



Determination of the hardness of natural waters, Kay and Newlands 805 



Determination of calcium and magnesiiom in natural waters, Kay and Newlands. 805 



Salicylic acid in wine, Rocques 805 



Direct determination of sucrose in presence of reducing sugars, Schneller 805 



Colorimetric and gra\imetric determinations of cholesterol, Mueller 805 



Rapid method for separation of butter fat from nonfatty material, Korpdczy.. . 805 



Determination of specific gravities of fixed oils in the Tropics, Wright 806 



Peanut oil, Thompson and Bailey 806 



Analyses of two oil fruits and seeds from tropical Africa, Wagner and Lampart. . 806 



The chemistry of the volatile oil of Achillea millefolium. Miller 807 



Note on the economic uses of rosha grass {Cymbopogon martini), Pearson 807 



Saw palmetto: A phytochemical study of the fruit of Sabal serrulata, Mann — 807 



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