EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



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



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Zootechny, Dairying, and Agrotechny — E. W. Morse. 



Agricultural Chemistry — W. H. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and E. W. Morse. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering — G. A. Griffin. 



Rural Economics — 3. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXI, NO. i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Retirement of Dr. E. W. Hilgard 1 



Dr. Hilgard's service and influence 2 



Facilities for study and research in the Departments at Washington 4 



Recent work in agricultural science 7 



Notes 94 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 

 agricultur.\l chemistry. 



Thermochemistry, Thomsen, trans, by Burke 7 



New gravimetric methods, Jannasch 7 



Simple method for nitrate and nitrite nitrogen in mixtures, Zeller 7 



A nitrometer with means for correcting barometric pressure, Herman 7 



The determination of caustic lime in presence of carbonate of lime, Heyer. . . 8 



Determination of small amounts of lime in magnesia, Hundeshagen 8 



Determination of phosphoric acid and phosphates, Wilkie 8 



The development of methods of analysis of Thomas slag, Popp 8 



Practical modification of method of determining hardness in water. Telle 8 



Influence of chlorids on determination of nitrates in water, Perrier and Farcy. 8 



Determining nitrates l)y Grandval and Lajoux method, Lombard and Lafore . 8 



[Water-sohible material in soils], Vinson and Ross 9 



An improved method of determining the acid content in soils, Siichting 9 



Should determination of magnesia be omitted in analysis of soils? Loew 9 



Separation of iron and detection of rare earths in cultivated soil, Pozzi-Escot. 9 



On plastein. Van Slyke and Levene 9 



Investigations with carbohydrates and ferments, Fischer 10 



Practical treatise on food analysis, Gerard and Bonn 10 



An apparatus for extracting with hot ether, Kolka 10 



The use of carbon tetrachlorid in the determination of fat, Rammstedt 10 



The ]irecii)itin reaction, Franceschelli 10 



Rapid determination of starch in sausage and other meat products, Telle 10 



Estimating phosphorus compounds in cereals, Carles 10 



Detection of bleached flours, Weil 10 



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