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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALEEX. Pii. D., AssixUnit Ducctor. 



KDiroHIAl, UKTAKTMENTS. 



M('t(>orolos.y, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



Ajirit'ultiiral Botany and \'egetable I'atliolosy — W. II. Eyans, I'll. D. 



Field Crops — J. I. Sciiulte. 



llortienltnre and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Zootoclmy and Human Nutrition — C. F. Eangworthy, Pli. D. 



A.i,'rotecliny. I>airy Fiirniiiiir. and Dairying — 11. W. Eawson. 



Agricultural Cheniistry — \V. II. Beai,, C. F. Langworthy, and H. W. Lawson. 



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



Rural Engineering — B. P. Fleming. 



Rural Econonncs — J. B. ]\Iorman. 



Agricultural Education — 1>. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVIII, NO. ii. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



The present need of men in agricultural research 1001 



Agricultural research as a career 1003 



The training of investigators in agriculture 1004 



Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations. 1!»()T, E. W. Allen . 1007 



Recent work in agricultural science 1019 



Notes 1096 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 

 agricultural chemistry. 



Ise of corrosive sublimate for preservation of milk, Grelot__ 1019 



Determination of fat in cream, Siegfeld 1019 



Determination of fat in condensed milk, Hals and Klykken 1019 



Refraction of fats and fatty acids. Dons 1019 



Refractometric examiilation of milk and cream. Baler and Neumann 1019 



Estimation of lactose and butter f;it in milk chocolate, Dubois 1019 



Inversion of sucrose by acid mercuric nitrate, Cochran 1020 



Unification of reducing-sugar methods. Walker 1020 



Improvements in autoclave method of estimating crude fiber, Bremer 1020 



Amount of cellulose, lignin, and cutin in pepper and cocoa, Fincke 1020 



[Laboratory apparatus] 1020 



>rETEOROI.OGY — WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 13 1020 



Report of the meteorologist. Bishop 1022 



Meteorological observations, Ostrander and Barry 1022 



Summaries of temperature, rainfall, ;ind sunshine, Ladd 1022 



Semi-arid America compared with South Australia, Summers 1022 



The weather maps of the pul)lic weather service, Grohmanu 1023 



Weather predictions, Jochimseu 1023 



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