EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — L. W. Fetzer, Ph. 1)., M. D. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers |g • ^y' ^j^^^'^j^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology j^y' jj' l^ng*^' 



T.. 1 , ^ fj. L SCHULTE. 



Field Crops |j ^ r^^.^i^-. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. 1). 



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



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



,. X • -»r J- • fW. A. Hooker. 



Veterinary Medicine |l. w. Fetzer. 



Rural Engineering . 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education <^ ,,■ jT r^j^g 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXV, NO. 6. 



Page. 



Recent work in agricultural science 501 



Notes 600 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY — AGROTECHNY. 



A centrifugal method for the determination of humus. Wells et al _ 501 



Studies on the detection of adulteration in bone superphosphate, Masoni 501 



A modified method for estimating sugar in sugar beets, Herzfeld 502 



Sugar estimation in beets according to Herzfeld 's method, Bialon and Taegener . 502 



Calorimetry of Argentina butter, Ducloux 502 



A new method for the separation of the seven permitted coal-tar colors. Price. . 502 



Analysis of sweetened condensed milk, Backe, Wiborg, and Roer 502 



The detection of benzoic acid in meats and fats, Fischer and Gruenert 502 



Detection of benzoic acid in meats and fats, Fischer and Gruenert 503 



Estimation of tartaric acid, Heczko 503 



Estimation of total tartaric acid, Heczko 504 



Methods for estimating ethyl alcohol quantitatively, Baudrexel 504 



Hydrolysis of casein, Osborne and Guest 504 



The occurrence of sucrose in grapes, Alwood 504 



The occurrence of sucrose (cane sugar) in unfermented grape juice 504 



Enological studies, Alwood 504 



A chemical investigation of the oil of chenopodium, Nelson 506 



Lime-sulphur wash, Harcourt 506 



The utilization of crop plants in paper making. Brand 507 



Manufacture of potato spirit in Germany, Skinner 507 



Yearbook of chemistry, edited by Meyer et al 507 



Twenty -seventh convention of Official Agricultural Chemists, edited by Wiley. 507 



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