EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor : H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAI- DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Beal. 

 Tillman. 



Ph. D. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers < „ ' „/ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, Vegetable Pathology H^/ ^- Jqyd ^' 



Field Crops/ J ^ 



Schulte. 



Rankin. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

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

 Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker. 



veterinary Medlclnej}:-,-^; »--"• 



Rural Engineering — R. Trullinger. Lj, 



Rural Economics — B. B. Hare. 



Agricultural Education j^' ^ lTne^' 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVII, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Pago. 



The anniversary of agricultural education 601 



The influence of the land-grant coUegea on higher education 605 



Recent work in agricultural science 609 



Notes 696 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chehistry — agrotechny. 



Technical methods of chemical analysis, trans, and edited by Keane et al 609 



Solubility determinations in agricultural chemistry, Rindell 609 



A modification of the diphenylamin test. Withers and Ray 609 



Determination of lithium, Skinner and Collins 609 



A method of estimating calcium carbonate in soils, Shrewsbury 610 



The estimation of ammonia in carbonated waters, Elsdon and Evers 610 



Nitric nitrogen in mixed fertilizers, Peck 610 



Report of the committee on phosphate rock, Richardson et al 610 



The forms of phosphorus in cotton-seed meal, Rather 611 



Lutein obtained from egg yolks, Willstatter and Escher 611 



Soy-bean oil, Matthes and Dahle 611 



Valuation of tea, Besson 612 



The synthetic properties of antiemulsin, Bayliss 612 



Determination of crude fiber in finely powdered materials, Greifenhagen 612 



In regard to the determination of lecithin, Salzman 612 



Flocculation of lecithin and lecithin protein mixtures with acids, Feinschmidt . . 612 



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