Pffipsrty sf {'IS L'niisd SJaijs Governineot. 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



Agricultural Botany and ^'egetable Pathology — W. II. Evans, Ph. D 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture aud Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Zootechny aud Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Agrotechny. Dairy Farming, and Dairying — II. W. Lanvson. 



Agricultural Chemistry — W. II. Beal, C. F. Laxgworthy, and IF W. Lawson. 



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



Rural Engineering — 



Rural Economics — J. B. Mor.man. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIX, NO. 4. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The oral instruction of the farmer 301 



Aid to new settlers 303 



The experiment stations and extension work 304 



Recent work in agricultural science 306 



Notes 393 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultur.\l chemistry. 



The corrosion of iron, Cushman ^ 306 



Report on colors, Loomis 306 



The heat of combustion of vegetable proteins, Benedict and Osborne 306 



Index of refraction of glucosids and proteids, Obermayer and Pick 307 



Sucrase in apple pomace and cider, Warcollier 307 



Determination of nitrates by Busch method, Adan 307 



On methods of determining soluble phosphoric acid in slag, Jentys 307 



Methods of analysis and tests used by the chemists, Yoder 307 



The determination of creatiu and creatinin, Benedict and Myers 307 



Determination of creatin and creatinin in meats, Grindley and Woods 308 



Identification of soap in zwieback, Schwarz and Ilartwig 308 



Identification of sodium benzoate or phosphate in meat, Beythien 308 



Reply to criticisms of dry lead defecation in raw sugar analysis. Home 308 



Use of cryoscopy in judging spices and other drugs, Beckmann 308 



The rajiid estimation of total solids in milk, Revis .308 



Estimation of salicylic acid in milk and cream, Revis and Payne 308 



PiCfraction of nonvolatile fatty acids in butter, Ludwig 309 



Refraction of nonvolatile fatty acids, Si)rinkmeyer and Fiirsteuberg 309 



Refraction of the nonvolatile fatty acids, Sudendorf 309 



New method for detection of cocoanut oil in butter, Cohn .309 



New "international" method of tannin analysis 309 



Apparatus for determination of carbon dioxid in carbonates, Malherbe 309 



