EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Asdstant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Meteorology, Soils, and FertLlizer8{W; ^; II^llinger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology/^' ^- f J^d ^' ^^' ^' 



^7i^^A rv^^o/J- I- SCHULTE. 



Field CropsJQ ^^ Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutritionj^" f^' ^^^^«^^«^^^' ^^- ^^ ^- ^^ 



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

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

 veterinary Medicinej^- A. Ho^OK.«. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Riual Economics — B. B. Hare. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX, NO. i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The letters and writings of Dr. S. W. Johnson 1 



Rediscovered ideals for agricultural investigation 5 



Recent work in agricultural science 10 



Notes 95 



SUBJECT LISTS OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



Principles of agricultural chemistry, Fraps 10 



About the pentosans, Goy 10 



The temperature at which starch granules gelatinize, Nyman 10 



The chemistry of the resins of the Douglas fir, Frankforter and Brown 10 



The investigation of the chemical action of bacteria, Harden 10 



Progress made in regard to the fermentation organisms and enzyms, Koch 11 



In regard to the ferment natiu-e of peroxidase, Hesse and Kooper.' 11 



Cleavage of a and ;9 methyl glucosid by Aspergillus niger, Dox and Neidi r 11 



Determination of alkalis in silicates -svith calcium chlorid, Miikinen 11 



New methods for the examination and judgment of soils, Konig 12 



The determination of lime in cow feces, Dutcher 12 



Water analysis for sanitary and technical purposes, Stocks 12 



Mineral analysis of water 13 



Food control by police officials, Bremer 13 



Rapid method for determiiiin g fat in cacao with the Zeiss refractometer, Richter. 13 



Changes in methods for succinic and malic acids, von der Heide and Schwenk. 13 



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