EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED I5V , 



A. C. TRUE, Ph. D., Director, 



AND 



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. 4. 



Editorial notes: 



The late Dr. E. Lewis Stnrtevant 301 



National Society of Agriculture in Egypt 303 



Official methods of analysis of fertilizers and feeding stuffs adopted by the 

 Belgian State laboratories and the agricultural experiment stations of Hol- 

 land 304 



Recent work in agricultural science 310 



Notes 399 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The determination of citrate-soluble phosphoric acid in bone meal, superphos- 

 phates, etc. , O. Bottcher 310 



A contribution to the determination of potash, J. Diainant 310 



A new method of determining fat in feeding stuffs, meat, feces, etc., L. Lieber- 



mann and S. Szckely 310 



Determinations of fat by Liebermann's saponification method, F. Tangl and 



J. Weiser 311 



A simple method for the estimation of carbohydrates (sugar, starch, dextrin) 



in foods and condiments, F. Grommes 311 



A new method for drying feces, H. Poda 313 



Chemical department, E. F. Ladd 315 



Report of the chemist, W. R. Perkins 315 



I 



