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 Fertilizers/^ ■^- ^^^^^• 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology/^/ S' ^^^^^s, Ph. D. 



^-^IW. H.Long. 



Field Cropsg: J,' «---; 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 

 Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 

 Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — E. W. Morse. 

 Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker 



Veterinary MedicinejW- A; Hoo-- 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIV, NO. 2. 



Page. 

 Editori 1 notes: 



The field of agricultural engineering as a teaching and a professional 



branch 101 



Recent work in agricultural science 121 



Notes 194 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Introduction to colloid chemistry, Poschl 1 20 



The use of Busch's nitron for the analysis of Chile saltpeter, Radlberger 120 



Determination of potassium as potassium platinic chlorid, Rohland 120 



New methods for the analysis of commercial phosphates, Wilkie 1 20 



Mechanical agitator for the analyses of phosphates, Frailong 120 



Contribution to the chemistry and analysis of fats, Heiduschka 1 20 



Micro-chemical reaction of fatty bodies and Gram's reaction, Guerbet et al 120 



Estimation of volatile acids in fermentation products of some microbes, Selibor. 120 



Lactose and its behavior in aqueous solutions, Fleischmann and Wiegner 121 



Ferrocyanid of potash as an indicator in glucose estimation, Selvatici 121 



The formation of phyllotaonins from chlorophyllan, Malarski and Marchlewski . 121 



Presence of stachyose in the underground parts of labiate plants, Piault 121 



The catalase of molds, Dox j^^^ 



About the fat-splitting ferments, Hefter |^^ 



About a new method of isolating peroxydases. Van der Haar 122 



Hedero-peroxydase, agluco-proteid. Van der Haar |^^ 



Methods for the determination of diastatic power, Sherman et al. . . ._ 12^ 



Do grains killed by heat retain their diastatic power? Apsit and Gam 1-^ 



[Examination of barley] 



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