ProDertv of the United States Government 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: K. \\'. ALLEN, Pii. I).. As.sistunt Director. 



EDlTOKl A L I )EP ART M E NT S. 



.Meteorology. Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Hotany and Vegetable Pathology — W. IT. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — .T. L Scnri.TE. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. .7. Glasson. 



Zootechny and Human Nutrition — ('. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



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



Agricultural Chenustry — W. IL Beal. C. F. Langworthy, and II. AV. Lawson. 



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



Rural Engineering — B. P. Fleming. 



Kural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVIII. NO. 9. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



The Adams fund projects and wiiat they show 801 



.Vdvantages of systematizing station work 800 



Robert Warington. deceiised 807 



Recent work in agricultural science 809 



Notes 1 893 



SUB.JECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



.\. single standardizing material for acidimetry and alkaliniitry. Rupp 809 



Rapid determination of carbon dioxid, ]Miintz. Lainc. and Gallois 809 



New method for determination of annnonia in waters, Buisson 809 



Detcrniin;ition of manganese in drinking water, Liihrig and Becker 809 



Delicate re.-iction for carbohydrates. Fenton 809 



Reaction of milk with sodium or potassium hydroxid. Kriiger 810 



Contribution to the analysis of milk, Carlinfanti and Pierandrei 810 



Determination of lactose in milk. Porcher . 810 



Ap]ilication of cryoscopy to analysis of nulk, Griiner 811 



Detection of added water in milk. Revis 811 



Refi-actoinctric dete<-tion of added water in nulk, Ackermann Sll 



Temperature correction of Zeiss butyro-refractometer. Richmond___ 811 



I)isting\iisliing cocoanut oil from butter and other fats and oils. Ilanus — 811 



Detec'tion of cocoanut oil in butter, von Morgenstern and Wolbring 812 



The silver index method of Wijsman and Reijst. Svoboda 812 



Determination of fat in cheese by (Jerber method. Scala 812 



Determination of creatinin and crcatin in nuvits. Grindley and "Woods 812 



Agricnltin-al chemistry diu-ing the second half year of I'.km;. Zielstorff 813 



Ai)str:icts from cni'i-ent literature upon industrial chemistry, Thurp 813 



Progrc'ss in cellulose chemistry. Vieweg 813 



Analysis of tanning materials. Procter and Bennett 813 



Annual re])ort of government juialyst [Trinidad] for 1905-fi. Carmody 813 



Van Nostrand's chemical annual. 1907. edited by Olsen 813 



METEOROLOGY WATER. 



Meteorological elements and their relation to climate. Meissner 813 



Question of reorganization of the weather service. Grohmaun 81."! 



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