EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Meteorolop;y, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany and Vegetable Pathology — W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — J. L Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Zootechny, Dairying, and Agrotechny — E. W. Morse. 



Agricultural Chemistry — W. II. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and E. \V. Morse. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering — G. A. Griffin. 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XX, NO. lo. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The extension of agricultupal instruction in the schools 901 



Increased facilities tor training agricultural teachers 902 



English attitude toward applied science and agricultural studies 905 



Recent work in agricultural science 906 



Notes 906 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



The rusting of iron, Tildon 906 



Rusting of iron. Friend 906 



(y'orrosion of iron, Burgess 906 



The principles and results of plant chemistry, Euler 906 



Concerning the value and synthesis of protein, Hofmeister 906 



Milk proteins, Olson 906 



Hydrolysis of hordein, Kleinschmitt 907 



Distinguishing phosphoprotein from nucleoprotein, Plimmer and Scott 907 



A modification of the character of gluten in presence of sulphurous acid, Dugast. 907 



The constitution of starch, Gatin-(iruzewska 907 



Further studies on the forms of milk sugar, Hudson 907 



( )n the sugar of colostrums, Sebelien and Sunde 908 



Preparation of a standard solution of litmus and litmus media, Brown 908 



The determination of nitrogen, Taurke 908 



Report of the committee on the analysis of phosphate rock, Ilagedorn et al. . . . 908 



Volumetric determination of ])hosphoric acid in fertilizers, Williams 908 



The determination of cotton-sood hulls in cotton-seed meal, Fraps 908 



Detection and determination of nitric acid in water and sewage, Klut 909 



The determination of calcium carbonate in soils^and its importance, Votruba. . 909 



.\ew method for estimation of lactic acid in animal organs and fluids, Jerusalem. 909 



The quantitative estimation of creatinin in urine, Edlefsen 909 



The cleterm illation of reducing sugars from the weight of cuprous oxid, Browne. 909 



The precipitation of reducing sugars with basic lead acetate, Bryan 909 



Errors in the polarimetric determination of sucrose when lead salts are used. . . 909 



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