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^ o w Titimav 

 Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology< tt^ 



H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 H. Long. 



T?- ^ T n /J- I- SCHULTE. 



Field Cropsjj q 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. 



Tf + • iir J- • /W. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary MedicmeJL. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering 



Rural Economics — ^J. B. Morman. 

 Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIV, NO. 6. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The method of t^cience • 501 



Recent work in agricultural science 509 



Notes 597 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The constituents of asparagus and asparagus roots, Wicherg and Tollens 509 



The carbohydrates of the aspar^igus plant, Wichers and Tollens 509 



The soluble carbohydrates in asparagus roots, Morse 509 



Enzymic condensation of sugars, Pantanelli and Faure 510 



The constitution of vicianose; diastatic hydrolysis, Bertrand and Weisweiller . 510 



The filtration of rennet and pepsin, Funk and Niemann 510 



The inactivation of rennet by shaking, Schmidt-Nielsen 510 



Contribution to our knowledge of amylase, Wohl and Glimm 511 



The nuclease of the mammary gland, Borrino 511 



Silk peptone for detecting peptolytic ferments, Abderhalden and Steinbeck. . 511 



Biochemical and toxicological studies upon Penicillium, Alsberg and Black . . . 511 



Behavior of molds toward the stereoisomers of unsaturated dibasic acids, Dox. . 511 



Oxidation by mold fungi, Meier 511 



On the oxidation of pyrogallol by hydrogen peroxid, Bunzel 511 



Progress in systematic qualitative organic analysis, Mulliken 512 



Researches in regard to the precipitins of honey, Galli-Valerio and Bornand . . . 512 



Detection of invert sugar in commercial honey, Quantin 512 



Use of refractometer in analysis of jams, marmalades, and confections, Clacher . . 512 



The estimation of small quantities of essential oil in spices, etc.. Brown 512 



A method for the determination of tin in canned foods, Schreiber and Taber. . . 512 



Salicylic acid reactions, Reichard 513 



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