EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology-, Soils, and FertiUzersjW- H. ^eal^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology!^- ^- f^Yc ^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



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



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



rC. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 Foods and Human Nutrition] H. L. Lang. 



IC. F. Walton, Jr. 

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



Veterma^Medicme{f;^.H00K-- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIV, NO. 9. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 801 



Notes 900 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



A handbook of colloid chemistry: Ostwald, translation by Fischer et al 801 



Industrial and manufacturing chemistry. — I. Organic, Martin et al 801 



Technology of the organic chemical industries, edited by Binz 801 



The chemical technology of fermentation and food stuffs, edited by Hayduck. . 801 



Chemical changes in the souring of milk. Van Slyke and Bosworth 802 



Chemical changes during the ripening of the wild-goose plum, McHargue 802 



The essential oil of sugi ( Cryptomeria japonica) leaves, Uchida 802 



Essential oil of Formosan hinoki (Chamxcyparis obtusa) wood, Uchida 802 



Thermal values of the fats and oils. — I, The heat of bromination, Marden 803 



The action of bromin on proteins and amino acids, Siegfried and Reppin 803 



Constitution of proteins of flour and relation to baking strength, BUsh 803 



Refractive indices of solutions of certain proteins. — IX, Edestin, Schmidt 803 



Preparation of glucosamin hydrochlorid from mucoid from ascitic fluid , Oswald . 803 



Enzym investigations. — X, The enzymatic sjoithesis of disaccharids, Lob 803 



Influence of certain substances on activity of invertase. Griffin and Nelson 803 



Occurrence of arginase and determination by formol titration, Edlbacher 804 



A hydrogen electrode vessel, Clark 804 



Simple sodium lamp for polariscope, Foresman 804 



A large fat extractor, Sclimidt 804 



Soda lime as an energetic general reagent, Guareschi 804 



Rapid method of converting scrap platinum into chloroplatinic acid, Tingle. . 804 



A possible source of error in colorimeter observations. Long 805 



An evaluation of methods for determination of phosphoric acid, Sichmann 805 



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