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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



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. 



Zootechny and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. I). 



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



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



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



Rural Engineering — 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIX, NO. i. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



Quarter centennial of the New York State Station 1 



Dr. G. C. Caldwell, deceased 4 



Recent work in agricultural science 6 



Notes 94 



SUB.JECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



Determination of the available phosphoric acid in soils, De'Sigmond 6 



Determination of potash by the modified Finkener method, Neubauer 7 



The determination of water in proteids, Benedict and Manning 7 



The detection and estimation of reducing sugars, Benedict 8 



Separating starch and glycogen. Baur and Polenske 8 



Separation of carbohydrates by pure yeasts, Konig and Hermann 9 



Sugar content of dried beet chips and sugar chips. Strohmer and Fallada. 9 



The Polenske number, Siegfeld 9 



Distillation device especially for nitrogen determination. Block 9 



.meteorology WATER. 



Treatise on the weather for farmers, Holdefleiss 9 



Collected contributions from meteorology, von Bezold and Coym 9 



Monthly Weather Review 9 



Meteorological observations 10 



Meteorological observations, Ostrander and Barry 10 



Weather report for 190r.. Day 10 



The climate of Calvert County [Md.], von Herrmann 10 



A proposed new method of weather forecasting. Clayton 10 



Rainfall and run-off of the Catskill Mountain region. Merriman 11 



Evaporation, Day li 



Damage by lightning in 190G, Day 11 



Where the wind does the work, Cobb 11 



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