Property of the United States Governmen' 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Fii. 1)., A,^niNt(i)it Director. 



EIHTOIUAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Metoorolocy, Soils;, nnd Fortilizors — W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural liotany aud Vegetable Pathology — W.. IL Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — .T. L Schulte. 



Horticulture aud Forestry — E. J. Gi.asson. 



Zootcclmy and Ihunau Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Agrotcchny. Dairy Farming, aud Dairying — H. W. Lawson. 



Agricultural Choinistry — W. IL Beat.. ('. F. Langworthy, and H. W. Lawson. 



Econonuc Zocdogy, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 



Rural Engineering — B. P. Fleming. 



Rural Economics — ,L B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. ,T. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVIII, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes : I'age. 



The agricultural appropriation act. 1907-8 Wl 



Increased Federal aid to agricultural education 705 



M. Berthelot, deceased JOS 



Recent work in agricultural science TOM 



Notes T93 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Determination of nitrogen in. nitrate of soda, Van Dam 70S 



Detection of nitric acid, Soltsien 708 



Phosi)liomolyhdic acid as a reagent for ])otassiuni. Schlicht 708 



Causticizing of alkali carbonates by lime, Le Blanc and Novotny 708 



Determination of formaldehyde in nnlk, Richardson 70!) 



Estimation of preservatives in ndlk. Shrewslmry 700 



New apiiaratus for deterniinaticn of fat content of milk, Adorjau 700 



A simple fat-extraction ajiparatus, Fraps 709 



Detection of the adulteration of butter, Robin 709 



Detection of cotton-seed oil, Petkow 709 



Sucrose and reducing sugars in fluid saccharin pi-oducts, Wiechmauu 709 



A rai)id method for the determination of water in butter. Gray 710 



Analysis of wine ~^0 



Recent work on protein hydrolysis. Green 711 



Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry, Bailey 711 



<;uide for detection of adulteration of food materials. Breteau 711 



Agricultural chemistry in first h;ilf of lOOC. ZielstorlT 711 



Progress in inorganic chemic.-il industry during 1900, Ranter 711 



Extracts from proceedings of the A. O. A. C, 190G 711 



Internatioual catalogue of scientific literature, D — Chemistry 711 



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