EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Associate Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITOKIAL DEPABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Clieniistry and Agrotecliny — Sybh. L. Smith. 



MeteorologJ^ Soils, and Fertilizers {J'- j^'l^ckett. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology {^- ^- ^^^0 ^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops — J. D. Luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition {g^,,F. Langwcj.tht, Ph. D.. D. Sc. 



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



Vetenna.,- Mea,c>ue\]^J^ ««™ . 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullingeb. 



Rural EconomicsjJ^- Merritt. 



\L0UISE IMarbut. 



Agricultural Education |:\- ^^^^- 



\ Marie T. Spethmann. 

 Indexes — Amelia B. Deans. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 41, No. 3. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science '. 201 



Notes 300 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — ageotechny. 



Annual reports on chemistry for 1918, edited by Cain and Greenaway 201 



Studies relating to milk 201 



Preparation of rhamnose, Clark 201 



The composition of starch. — I-II. Mellanby 202 



Nature of the cellulose of cereal straw, Heuser and Haug 202 



Studies on enzym action. — XVII, Vegetables, Falk et al 202 



Oxidizing enzyms. — I, The nature of " peroxid," Onslow 203 



Accuracy of different methods of measuring small volumes, Andrewes 203 



Replacement of platinum by an alloy in analysis, Nicolardot and Boudet 204 



Table of pH, H+, and OH— values, Schmidt and Hoagland 204 



Determination of nitrites and nitrates in presence of each other, Oelsner 204 



Observations on the albuminoid ammonia test, Cooper and Heward 204 



Determination of sulphate as BaSO^, Kolthoff and Vogelenzang : 205 



Determination of sulphate as SrS04, Kolthoff and Vogelenzang 205 



7:> Acidity and alkalinity, with special reference to soils. Wherry 205 



^ A simplified wet combustion method for carbon in soils, Waynick 206 



Analysis of calcium cyananiid, Hene and van Haaren 207 



The red iodotannic test, Tsakalotos and Dalmas 207 



Adulteration of fresh with " santen " and condensed milk, Weehuizen 208 



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