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— |g ' ^- Tillman. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyj-^* g" Lq^^^' 



-n- u /-. fJ. I. SCHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj ^ r^^kin. 



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. 



,T 4. • HT T • fW. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary MedicineJL. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. • 



Agricultural Education— D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIV, NO. i. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



The gathering of societies in Washington in November 1 



The affiliation of societies for agricultural science 3 



An international congress of agricultural education 7 



Recent work in agricultural science 9 



Notes 94 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The determination of humus, Alway, Files, and Pinckney ;.•--.••• ^ 



Determination of phosphoric acid by means of standard silver nitrate, Wilkie. . 9 



The volumetric estimation of potash in organic liquids, Drushel 10 



Notes on the analysis of edestin and zein, Osborne and Liddle 10 



Sources of loss in analyzing products of protein hydrolysis, Osborne and Jones. . 10 



About the individuality of cellase and emulsin, Bertrand and Compton. ...... 10 



Determination of starch in cereals by the Zeiss immersion refractometer, Lalin. . 11 



Detection of cruciferous oils in oil mixtures, Holde and Marcusson ._. . 11 



Detection of rape oil in olive oil and other edible oils, Tortelli and Fortini 11 



The sulphur compounds of the onion (Allium cepa), Kooper 12 



The erepsin of the cabbage (Brassica oleracea), Blood 12 



The presence of some organic bases in Boletus edulis, Yoshimura 12 



The composition of malt vinegar, Russell and Hodgson 12 



An accurate method for caffein in tea and in green and roasted coffee, Burmann. 12 



Chemistry and physiology of milk. Grimmer 13 



The physical chemistry of the calcium chlorid serum of milk, Wiegner 13 



Preformed sulphuric acid in milk, Tillmans and Sutthoff 13 



Investigations of milk ferments and their origin, Wohlgemuth and Strich 14 



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