EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers— W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Vegetable Pathology/^- ^- ^l^^^' ^^" ^' 



T-'- iJ n /J- I- SCHULTE. 



Field Crops|Q ^ Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticultiu-e and Forestry— E. J. Glasson. 



T^ J J TT -\j 4- ■4-- /C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutritions -CT -j^ Lang 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — -H. Webster. 

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

 17 ^ • Till J- • fW. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary MedicmeJL w Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering — R.Trullinger. LIBI^AKY 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. wc**/ v,c>.^ 



Agricultural Education— C. H. Lane. "'^^^ ^OUa. 



Indexes— M. D. Moore. BOTa.MCaL 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIX, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



The administrative management of the modern station 401 



The moral of twenty-five years 404 



The essentials of research 406 



Recent work in agricultural science 408 



Notes 497 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



aqricxjltural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Progress made in the field of agricultural chemistry, Stutzer 408 



Colloid chemistry and agi-icultural chemistry, Wiegner 408 



Handbook of biochemical methods, edited by Abderhalden 408 



The physical chemistry of the proteins, Robertson, trans, by Wyncken 408 



Do gliadin and zein yield lysin on hydrolysis? Osborne and Leavenworth 408 



The influence of heat and chemicals on the starch grain, Kraemer 409 



Sugar formation in the stalks of maize and sugar sorghum, Heckel 409 



New method for determining potassium titrametrically in fertilizers, Schmitz. 409 



Soluble silicic acid in Thomas slag and estimation of phosphoric acid, Popp. . . 409 



Determining the citric acid-soluble phosphoric acid in Thomas powder, Popp.. 410 



Determining citric acid-soluble phosphoric acid in slag, Fuchs and Wagner 410 



Technical caseins, their examination and judgment, Hopfner and Burmeister. . 411 



An improvement of the method for the determination of galactan, Miyake 411 



Estimation of methyl alcohol in ethyl alcohol and in alcoholic drinks, Bono 411 



Estimation of amino acids in plants by the formaldehyde method, Bailly 411 



Progress in the chemistry of food and condiments during 1911, Kuttenkeuler. . 412 



Swiss food book 412 



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