troperly of Iha Ij.;i!eii wlaUs Eflveriinieiit. 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: K. W. ALLEN, I'h. I)., Assistant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Agricultural Botany aud Vegetable I'athology— W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — J. 1. Schulte. 



Horticulture aud Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Zootecbuy and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. L^. 



Agrotecbuy, Dairy Fanning, aud Dairying — H. W. Lawson. 



Agricultural Cbemistry — ^Y. H. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and H. W. Lawson. 



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



Rural Engineering — 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIX, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes : Pago. 



Prof. W. O. Atwater, deceased 101 



Tbe Massacbusetts conference on rural progress lOG 



Recent work in asricultural science 109 



Notes 195 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Nitron as a microcbemical reagent, Visser 109 



Notes on determination of nitrogen by Jodlbaur metbod, Volkbolz 109 



Determination of nitrous acid, Maderna and Coffetti 109 



Detection of nitric and nitrous acids, Wagner 109 



Separating potassium from sodium as cbloroplatinates, Morozewicz 109 



Tbe estimation of free acids in superpbospbates, Van Dormael 109 



A sbort scbeme of water analysis, Hugbes 110 



Cbemical soil analysis for plant pbysiology, Mitscberlicb 110 



-Metbod of determining nitric acid in soils 110 



Determination of nitric acid in cbernozem soils, Sazanov 110 



A new calcimeter, Bieler-Cbatelan 110 



Biological metbods in analysis of food stuffs, Vandevelde 110 



Analysis of flours and similar goods, spices, and condiments 111 



Comparative metbods of determining dry matter in potatoes. Hansen 111 



Mono-amino acids of " syntonins " from bwf, Abderbalden and Sasaki 111 



Rapid metbod for determination of fat in grits, Scbiitte 111 



Estimation of tbe unsaponitiable ct)nstituents of fat, Meyer 111 



Concerning nitrogen-free extiMct in oil cakes, Cbristensen 111 



Sugar content of sugar-beet cblps, Strobmer and Fallada 111 



A new decomposition product of gliadin. Osborne and Clapp 112 



Quantitative estimation of extractive and protein phospborus, Kocb 112 



Determination of di'y matter in milk. Hinnrd 112 



Reaction of formauiebyde witb naptbalene. Ditz 112 



On tbe determination of water in butter, Faber 112 



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