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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Etlitor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Chief, Office of Experiment Illations. 

 Associate Editor: H. L. Knicht. 



KDITOKIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chennstry and Agrotechuy — Sybil L. Smith. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers{)J; »; .^,^,^_ 



A-ricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology {^y- -^-^^y^^' ^*^- ■'^• 



Field Crops — H. M. Steece. 



Horticultuiv and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



F«,„s „„„ Huuaa,, Nut.i,i„„ {^^i,;:- >--;;-;-•. ■■"■'>.. f-. So. 



Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Dairy P^arming — F. J. Keixey. 



Veterinary Medicine | J}'- ^- Hooker. 



^ I Sybil L. Smith. 



Rural Engineering— U. \V. Trullinger. 



Kural Economics If- ^^^rr'tt. 



I Louise Marbut. 



Agricultural Education |S- "" S^IT''- 



(.INIarie T. Si'Ethmann. 



Indexes — Martha C. Gunulach. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 43, No. 7. 



Editorial notes: F&gc 



James Wilson, late Secretary of Agriculture (JOl 



K»-cent work in agricultural science 609 



Notes 60!) 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Industrial chemistry: A manual, edited by Rogers 60!.> 



Treatise on inorganic chemistry, Molinari, trans, by Pope 609 



Colloidal chemistry and food chemistry, Ostwald 609 



Practicum of medical chemi-stry, Frtinkel 609 



Chemistry of human foods and condiments, — Vol. Ill, Konlg 609 



The hydrocyanic acid content of Phaseolus lunatus, Llilirig 610 



Soy bean oil, Low 610 



Notes on soy bean urease. Dox 610 



The fermentation of glucose, galactose, and mannose, Peterson and Fred- 610 



Influence of hydrogen-ion concentration on pepsin solutions, Northrop 611 



Effect of concentration of enzym on digestion of proteins. Northrop 611 



The nature of enzym action, Bayliss 611 



A weight burette for gas analysis. Weaver and Ledig 611 



A modified form of the Smith fermentation tube, Fuller 611 



Electrodes of platinized glass for electrolytic determinations, Meill^re — 612 



Acidity and acidimetry of soils. — II, The hydrogen electrode, Knight 612 



Determination of borax in fertilizers, Jones and Anderson 613 



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