EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITOKIAL DEIWKTMENTS. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertiliz.er!^ — \V. II. Beai,. 



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



Field Crojis — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — C. B. Smith. 



Zootechny an<l Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. 1). 



Agrotechny, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — IE W. Lawson. 



Agrieultural Chemistry — W. H. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and H. W. Lawson. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 



Rural Engineering — B. P. Fleming. 



Rural Economics— J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVIII, NO. 4. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Attitude of tlie experiment stations toward agricultural research 301 



"Tlie kind and character of work under the Adams Act" 303 



Develojtment of public sentiment for agricultural investigation 304 



Recent work in aunicultural science 307 



Notes 395 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



^lethods of determining phosphoric acid in artilicial fertilizers, Christensen 307 



Rapid analysis of suiierphosphates, Jacquet, Ciuintanilla, and Arredondo 307 



Causes of error in citro-mechanical method in phosphates and slag. Pellet 307 



Determination of phosphoric acid as magnesium pyrophosphate, Schmit/ 308 



Should one titrate calcareous marl with suljihuric acid? Schulze 308 



Determination of organic matter in waters l»y potassium permanganate, Garcia. 308 



Detection of humus substances in water, Klut 308 



New method for (|nantitative estimation of pentosans, Jolles 308 



Uniform methods of analysis of cane-factory products. Pellet 308 



Accurate commercial method for analysis of sugar beets, DavoU 308 



Estimation of glucose by volumetric method. Watt 308 



Analysis of milk under sale of food and drugs acts, Richmond and Miller 309 



Refractometric determination of milk fat, Ix)we 309 



A modification of the salt method, Rusche 309 



Determination of acidity in cream, llesse-Giistrow 309 



Determination of fat in cheese, ^\■(>ibull 309 



Determination of soluble and insoluble volatile fatty acids, Delaite and Legrand. 309 



Use of chromed hide powder in determination of tannin, Nihoul 310 



Examination of some Western Australian barks, INIann and Cowles 310 



[Chemical work for agricultural department of Western Australia], Mann 310 



Practical methods for identifying and estimating l)oric acid, Prescher 310 



Pure food, drug, and paint law, Ladd 310 



Pure food, pure drug, formaldehyde, Paris green, and paint laws, Ladd 310 



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