EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITOBIAL DEPABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizersj^-^^- g^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathologj^^y ^- gj^^' ^^^' ^' 



Field Crops — J. I. Schuite. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



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

 lu. L. 



Foods and Human Nutrition m. L. Lang. 



iC. F. Walton, Jr. 

 Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webstee 



Veterinary Medicine ^•i:-#oLS^- 

 Rural Engineering — R. W. Teullingek. 

 Rural Economics — E. Meeritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIV, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The experiment station as a field for the research worker 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 708 



Notes 797 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — ^agrotechny. 



The casein and salts of goat's milk, Bosworth and Van Slyke 708 



The formation of protein and humin substances, ^Maillard 708 



Synthesis of polypeptids, peptones, and proteins by enzyms, Abderhalden 708 



Studies on anthocyans, II-X, Willstiitter et al 709 



The phosphoric acid in starch, Northrop and Nelson 710 . 



Alfalfa seed oil. — ^Alfalfa investigation, VI, Jacobson and Holmes 710 



The chemistry of yeast and alcoholic fermentation, Euler and Lindner 711 



The soft resins in sulphured and unsulphured hops in storage, Russell 711 



Bakhar. — The Indian rice beer ferment, Hutchinson and Ram Ayyar 711 



On oxidase enzyms, Ewart 711 



A study of the composition and preparation of Bordeaux mixture, Sicard 711 



Technical methods of chemical analysis, trans, and edited by Keane et al 711 



The application of the paper pulp filter to the quantitative estimation of calcium 



and magnesium, Jodidi and Kellogg 712 



Differential iodimetry, I, Barnebey 712 



A simple hydrogen electrode, Barench'echt 712 



A method for the estimation of hygroscopic moisture in soils, Haigh 712 



A note on the Hopldns-Cole reaction for protein, Breidahl 713 



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