EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Cliemistry aud Agrotecliny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. D., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers { J[- ^- ^^^l^,^,^^^ ^ **^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology | ^' J^'^Jy^^' ^*^' ^* 



TT^^i 1 rn. . . / J. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Crops | ^, ^^ tucker. Ph. D. 



Horticulture aud Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition! ^. ^' I^ang worthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 



t 11. L/. IjANG. 



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

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



veterinary Meaioine{j:-^;^^»-- 

 Rural Engineering — K. W. Trullingeb. 

 lUiral Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXX, NO. 9. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 801 



Notes 900 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — AGROTECHNY. 



Introd'cJQtion to biochemistry, Lob 801 



Bearing of osmotic pressure on physical or general chemistry, Jones 801 



Reduction of arsenic acid to arsenious acid by thiosulphuric acid, Chapin 801 



The formation of hydrocyanic acid from proteins, Emerson, Cady, and Bailey 802 



The production of hydrocyanic acid by bacteria, Clawson and Young 802 



About the formation of betain in animals and plants, Ackermann 803 



Crystallized polysaccharids from starch, Pringshcim and Langhans 803 



Crystalhzation of cream of tartar in the fruit of grapes, Alwood 803 



The seeds and seed oil of bilberries and cranberries, Dicdrichs 803 



The hemagglutinating and precipitating properties of the bean, Schneider 804 



The chemical composition of some fungi, Winterstein, Renter, and Korolew 804 



The behavior of fungi toward phytin, Jegoroff 805 



Citric acid formation from glycerin by fungi, Wehmcr 805 



Amygdalase and amygdalinase in Aspergillus, JavilUer and Tchcrnorouti?ky. . 805 



Studies on enzym action. — VI, The specificity of lij)ase action, Falk 806 



Studies on enzym action. — VII, Action of amino acids on esters, Hamlin 806 



Cleavage of saccharose by acids with invertase, Bertrand and Rosenblatt 806 



Some properties of koji-diastase, Kita 806 



The determination of nitrogen in organic substances, Herzfeld 807 



The colloid matter of clay and its measurement, Ashley 807 



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