EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPAETMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers IJ^- ^- ,?^^^- 



IK. W. TErrLLINGEK. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Vegetable Pathology l^- ^- ^vans, Ph. D. 



r-, T c IW. E. Boyd. 



Field PrnnciiJ- ^- Schulte. 

 l^ieJd Ciops|(. ^^ Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry— E. J. Glasson. L. 



Foods and Human Nutrition|£- ^- Langworthy, Ph. D.. D. Sc (mj.' , 



IH. L. Lang. 

 Zootechny, Dairying and Dairy Farming— H. Wersteb BUTA • << - i 



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



Veterinary Medicinej^-^- Hooker. ' UA4<OL-is. 



iL. W. Fetzer. 

 Rural Engineering— R. W. Trullingeb. 

 Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane, 

 Indexe.? — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIX. NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: p^^g 



Research, experiment, and demonstration -jqi 



The essentials of research [ ^qo 



Lines of demarcation between experiment and demonstration 707 



Recent work in agricultural science 71 1 



Notes „ni- 



/ 94 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Fruit juices, Thompson and 'Whittier yji 



Soy-bean oil, Thompson and Morgan 712 



Lactic acid in com silage, Dox and Neidig 712 



Importance of hydrocyanic acid and glucosids in plant chemistry, jorissen 713 



Ihe action of manganous siUphate on castor bean lipase, Falk and Hamlin ' 713 



Analysisof the ash of the castor bean, HamUn " 714 



Symbiosis by various types of yeast, Vandevelde and Bosmans. '. '.'. 714 



Influence of temperature on the processes produced by yeast. Van Amstei 714 



Alcoholic fermentation, Harden ' " 714 



Constitution of proteins, with special reference to Reichard's reaction, Rottlie 715 



ihe heat coagulation and solution of albumin, Gayda 715 



Specific rotation of fructose, Tollens *.'."" 715 



Quantitative determination of saccharose in foods and condiments,' jolles '.'. 715 



Influence pf peptone on determination of sugar bv Fehling's solution, Bernardi 716 



Quantitative determmation of glucose by Bertrand's method, Rosenblatt 716 



ihe polanmetric determination of starch, Lintner 71g 



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