EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



Editor: E. W. ALLEX, Pii. D., Assistant Director 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers{^y;^|- ?|^J;,,^^,p^. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyj^y' f'^oy^^' ^^^' ^' 

 Field Crops<Q -^ 



SCHULTE. 



M. Tucker, Ph. J). 

 Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human ^^utrition{^-^L'. L^^r''^''''^'' ^^'' ^" ^'' ^'* 

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

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



Veterinary Medicine{J^^-,^;H™. 



Rural Engineering — II. W. Trullingek. 

 Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



Progress of studies in animal nutrition 101 



Requirements of feeding experiments 103 



Need of redirection of experimental work in animal husbandry lOG 



Recent work in agricultural science ■ 110 



Notes 198 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



In regard to the constitution of albumin, Chodat 110 



Preliminary note on coagulation of proteins by ultraviolet light, Bovie 110 



New investigations in regard to our knowledge of fats, Eimprich 110 



Reducing power of sugars and the definition of these substances, Schoorl ill 



Plant colloids. — I, Starch solution in presence of crystalloids, Samec Ill 



On the starch of glutinous rice and its hydrolysis of diastase, Tanaka Ill 



Development of certain yeasts in various nutrient solutions, Euler and Palm . . Ill 



Formation of alkali by enzyms, Neuberg Ill 



The biological analysis of casein antiserum, Klein 112 



Some applications of lacto and ovosera, Galli-Valerio and Bornand 112 



Methods of determining nitrogen in humus, Lipman and Pressey 112 



A comparison of methods for carbonates in soils, Gaither 113 



Polarization before inversion in molasses, Hazewinkel and Lourens 113 



The freezing point of milk, Henderson and ;Meston 113 



A new scale for determining moisture in butter, Worner 1 13 



A simple test for the determination of butter fat in butter, Doran 113 



Simplification of the method for Reichert-Meissl and Polenske numbers, Goske. 114 



Estimation of essential oil in mustard, Ra<iuet 114 



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