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^ ^ ' -.y ' 'TrTT m "an 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathologyj^r' §' Long^' ^^"^' 



Field CropslJ;!;!;--: 



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 Medidne{)^\^- l^^^il'^f " 



^ [L. \V . r ETZER. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education/ J? ■^- lTne^' 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXV. NO. i. 



Editorial notes: Page 



The miscellaneous character of station publications 1 



The International Institute of Agriculture and its publications 5 



Additional abstract numbers of Experiment Statioii Record 8 



Recent work in agricultural science 9 



Notes 96 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



The biological reactions of the vegetable proteins, Wells and Osborne 9 



The aporrhegmas, Ackermann and Kutscher 9 



Collecting and measuring the gases evolved during fermentation. Harden et al. 9 



The precipitation of the sulphate ion as barium sulphate, Ruppin 9 



A volumetric method of determining iodid, Bray and ^lacKay 10 



A note in regard to the Kjeldahl m.ethod for nitrogen, Harrison and Self 10 



A new method for estimating pho^^phoric acid, Martin 10 



Titrametric determination of citrate-soluble phosphoric acid, Wuji:s 10 



Citrate solubility of phosphoric oxid in basic slag, Flack 11 



Estimating the phosphoric acid in soils and crops, Kaserer and Greisenegger. . 11 



Determining phosphoric acid by Neumann's method, Krasser 11 



Some methods of analyses for soil investigations, VeBterberg 11 



Methods of soil analysis employed at the Passoeroean Sugar Station [Java] 12 



A biochemical reaction for pollution in water supplies, Sellards and Bartow. . . 12 



Some considerations on colorimetry, and a new colorimeter, Roberts 12 



Method for the analysis of fat, David , , 12 



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