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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Associate Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPABTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — Sybil L. Smith. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {W- H- B^al^^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology ^' e'eoyd^'^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops — J. D. Luckett. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Foods and Human Nutrition {§; J* ^/''.^r.T^' ^^' ^^ ^^ ^''- 



l,bYBiL L. Smith. 



Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — F. J. Kkt.t.ey. 



VetertaaryMe<Iloine{^^-„tL"'gSH. 

 Rural Engineering — R. W. Tbullingeb. 

 E. Merritt. 

 Louise IMarbut. 

 Dille. 

 Iarie T. Spethmann. 

 Indexes — ^Amelia B. Deans. 



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 Rural Economics < j 



Agricultural Education li: 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 41, No. 5. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The beginnings of agricultural research in California 401 



Recent work in agricultural science ; 407 



Notes 496 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTUEAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



An introduction to the study of biological chemistry, Schryver 407 



The chemical examination of three species of larkspurs, Beath 407 



Composition of the fruit of Cicer arietinum, Zlataroff 408 



Soft corn : Chemical composition and nitrogen distribution, Spitzer et al__ 408 



Ilex vomitoria as a native source of caffein. Power and Chesnut 409 



Isolation of the lodin compound which occurs in the thyroid, I, Kendall__ 409 



The catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxid, Phragm^n 409 



Catalase action in yeast cells, von Euler and Blix 409 



The catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxid. Phragm^n 409 



Action of enzyms upon starches of different origin, Sherman et al 409 



Growth of bacteria in media of different concentrations, Cohen and Clark_ 410 



Coal as a substitute for talcum to induce rapid boiling, Kendall 410 



The use of turpentine I'esin in turpentine as a foam breaker, Kendall 410 



Estimation of perchlorates, with chlorates and chlorids, Williams 411 



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