EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: IL L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



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



Field Crops — J. 1. 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 — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XXI, NO. 5. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Development of science in horticulture 401 



Some essentials of horticultural investigation 405 



Recent work in agricultural science 409 



Notes 497 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



On the quantitative determination of nitric acid, Gutbier 409 



The determination of nitrates by the Grand val and Lajoux method. Farcy 409 



Influence of bromids and iodids on determination of nitrates in water. Farcy. . 409 



On the determination of osmotic pressure, Konig and Hasenbiiumer 409 



Use of histological method for microscopical determination of colloids, Cornu. . 409 



Studies on the determination of clay in soils, Arntz 409 



Calculation of potash content of rocks from specific gravity, Przibylla 410 



The estimation of iron oxid and alumina in phosphate rocks. Gladding 410 



Determinations of the water-absorptive power of peat litter, Palmquist 410 



Hydrolysis of crystallized albumen from hen's egg, Osborne et al 410 



The hydrolyzed products of casein, Skraup 411 



Hydrolysis of casein with hydrochloric and sulphuric acids, Skraup and Turk. 411 



On the refractive indices of solutions of the caseinates, Robertson 411 



Introductory manual for the repression of adulteration, Lemercier 411 



Detecting incipient putrefaction in meat, Scala and Bonamartini 411 



Researches on lard and beef fat, Alberto 411 



A new micro-chemical method for identifying rye and wheat starch, Lenz 411 



Experiments on peas, Manila cream and gelatin treated with copper, Krzi^an. 412 



A new method for testing honey. Danger 412 



Judging honey, Hertkorn 412 



Use of temperature corrections in polarization of sugar products, Browne 412 



Report of the experiment station lor the Java sugar industry for 1908 412 



The Schmitt method for total ether extract in wine, Scurti and De Plato 412 



A new method for determining free volatile acid in wine, Gallo 412 



The brewer's analyst, Bailey 412 



The quantitative determination of purity of linseed cake and meal, Schoute.. 412 



Investigations on the purity of linseed cake and meal, Ezendam 412 



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