EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Cliief, Office of Experiment Stations. 

 Associate Editor: H. L. Knight. 



KDITOKIAI, DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and AKrutediny — Sybil L. Smith. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {JJ • ^^. g^^^^^^^. 



. , , T> ^ T1 ^ • 1 1 r.i ^ n j-i 1 \W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriologj-, and Plant Pathology Ky ^ Boyu 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glassox. 



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



„ , , TT ^' <- ^^-■ /C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Foods and Human Nutrition jg^.^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ 



Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — F. J. Kelley. 



veterinary Medk-lnej",,^; ««-- . 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullixger. 



{7V^ ATp^T'T'ttt' 

 LOUISE MARBUT. 



Agricultural Education — Marie T. Spethmann. 

 Indexes — Martha C. Gitndlach. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 43, No. 1. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes : 



The experiment stations and their fimds 1 



The price of delay 5 



Recent work in agricultural science 10 



Notes 99 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CIIEM ISTRY AGROTECHNY'. 



Manual of agricultural and food chemistry, Ravenna 10 



Continuation of work on vegetable proteins, Osborne anil Mendel 10 



[The urease content of seeds], Wester 10 



Adjustment of the reaction of bacteriological media, Mcintosh and Smart. 10 



Iron sulphid as indicator and new method for zinc determination, Houben_ 11 



Determination of titration curves without buffer mixtures, Gillespie 11 



Total acidity, concentration of hydrogen-ion and taste, Harvey 11 



The gold numbers of protalbinic and lysalbinic acids, Gortner 12 



Potassium chlorate as standardizing substance for alkali, Van Valken- 



burgh 12 



Chemical changes in composition of saccharin-bicarbonate tablets, Beyer — 12 



Apparatus for the determination of melting points, Dennis 12 



Acidity and acidimetry of soils. — I, Hopkins and Pettit method, Knight__ 12 



A rapid method for determining nitrogen in nitrate of soda, Butt 13 



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