EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Meteorology, Soils, and FertilizersjJ;- 1; 1^"^^,,^^^^. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyj^y; ^- g^YD.^' ^^' ^' 



17- 1 J p,^.^JJ. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Crops|(. ^j Tucker. Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition/C- F- Langwortht, Ph. D., D. So. LIBK A« > 



,H. L. Lang. j^EW YOK- 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. M»r ai 



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



Veterinary Medicine{J^\f- fZlT ""**"''"' 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The agricultural extension act 601 



State and National cooperation in agricultural extension 605 



The Louisville conference on country life development 608 



Recent work in agricultural science 610 



Notes G98 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



A short handbook on the carbohydrates, Tollens _ 610 



Industrial and manufacturing chemistry: Organic, Martin et al 610 



The ferments and their action, Oppenheimer. 610 



The presence of some benzine derivatives in soils, Shorey 610 



The mineral elements contained in the casein of milk. Lindet 611 



The rye flours of commerce and then- chemical examination, Hartl 612 



Unification of the methods of wine analysis 612 



Report of experimental-chemical and pure yeast laboratory at Klostemeuburg. 612 



Experiments in vinification. Musso 612 



Crystalline deposits in wines, Mathicu 612 



Testa in regard to the storage of apple residues 612 



Further notes on drying potatoes damaged by frost and rot, Rehfeld and Miiller . 613 



Significance of potato foliage drying with reference to apparatus, Voltz 613 



Cassava roots and their by-products, Kling _ 613 



American methods of manufacturing preserves, canned foods, etc., Shinkle 613 



Modern cane sirup making, Taggart - 614 



The production of b'eet sugar in a continental factory, Dowling 614 



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