EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., As^slant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology. SoUb, and FertilizersjW- H. B^^J;^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyl^- ^- Evans, Ph. D. 



''-"J Mg. m'^IW^h, Ph. D. ■ ' "" ^^""'^''V 



Horticulture and Forestry— E. J. Glasson. ^f^^' VOK' 



Foods and Human Nutritionjg- ^- Lang^worthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. **''T aMcaL 



Zootechny, Daiiying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. *^-^*<tJ*ir<. 



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



Veterinary Mediciae{W-^; Hook-- 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinqer. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Rural sanitation — an opportunity for extension work 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 707 



Notes 796 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Chemistry, inorganic and organic, Bloxam 707 



Biochemical hand lexicon, edited bv Abderhalden 707 



Volatility of lactic acid, Hart and Willaman 707 



Phytic acid in cotton-seed meal and wheat bran, Rather , 707 



Studies on melanin, V, Gortner , 707 



On the composition of t^TOsinase from two enzyms, Beijeriuck 708 



Oxidases of the female corn bloom, Doby 709 



The microscopical examination of vegetable products, Winton 709 



The colorimetric method for hydrocyanic acid in plants, Francis and Conncll. . 709 



Handbook of food analysis, edited by Beythien, Hartwich, and Kliminor 710 



Calculated dry substance in milk by Flcischmann formula, Pfister and Leuze. . 710 



The volatile oils, Gildemeister and Hoffmann, trans, by Kremors 710 



On Japanese peppermint oil, Shinosaki 710 



Peppermint oil industry in Japan, Shinosaki 711 



The maple sugar industry in Canada, Spencer 711 



The glucose and starch industry 711 



Manufacture of sugar from wood, Zimmermann 711 



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