EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agiicultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizersj^;^; ||ullingee. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathologyj^y" ^ ' g^y;^^' 



Field Crops— G. M. Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



fC. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 Foods and Human Nutrition^ n . L. Lang. 



IC. F. Walton, Jr. 

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

 Veterinary MedicinejW- A. Hookk^r. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIV, NO. 5. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



Science and common sense 401 



The growth of the science spirit 404 



Recent work in agricultural science 407 



Notes 495 



SUBJECT LLST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



TheoreticaJ and physical chemistry, Bigelow 407 



International catalogue of scientific literature. D — Chemistry 407 



Chemical and physical properties of oils from Acorus calamus, Russell 407 



Oxidation and polymerization of soy-bean oil, Taverne 407 



The isomeric tetracetates of xylose, Hudson and Johnson 408 



Bromoacetylxylose and beta-triacetylmethylxylosid, Dale 408 



The preparation of melibiose, Hudson and Harding 408 



A second crystallin 5-fructose pentacetate, Hudson and Brauns 408 



The effect of sodium chlorld upon the action of invertase, Fales and Nelson 408 



Acid phthalates as standards in acidimetry and alkalimetry^ Hendrixson 408 



Two methods of separation of the metals of the alkaline-earth group, Paterson.. 409 



\ Nephelometric estimation of phosphorus, Kober and Egerer 409 



cThe accuracy of Neumann's method for the estimation of phosphorus, Wardlaw. . 409 



The factor to be used in Neumann's method, Jodidi and Kellogg 409 



I Volumetric determination of phosphoric acid in calcium phosphate, Kolthoff . . 410 



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