EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



A. C. TRUE, Ph. I)., Director. 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying. 

 W. H. Beal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including methods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

 C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. — Foods and Animal Production. 



F. C. Kenyon, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 



J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 



With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. X, No. 3. 



Editorial notes : Page. 



Irrigation investigations 201 



An Egyptian school of agriculture 202 



Physical and meteorological researches, principally on solar rays, made at the 

 station of agricultural climatology at the observatory of Juvisy, C. Flani- 



marion 203 



Recent work in agricultural science 214 



Notes 299 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Legumin and other proteids of the pea, lentil, horse bean, and vetch, T. B. 



Osborne and G. F. Campbell 211 



Proteids of the soy bean, T. B. Osborne aud G. F. Campbell 218 



On the solubility of tricalcium phosphate and apatite in water, J. Joffre 218 



A method for distinguishing bone phosphate from mineral phosphate, F. Mar- 



tiuotti 219 



BOTANY. 



Investigations on the native vegetation of alkali lands, J. B. Davy 220 



Investigations on various economic plants, J. B. Davy 222 



Acidity of the root sap of citrus trees, E. W. Hilgard 223 



METEOROLOGY. 



Meteorological observations, A. 0. Leuschner and C. H. Shinn 224 



Meteorological record for 1896 - • -25 



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