EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



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



AND 



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

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



and Agricultural Engineering. 

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

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



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. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Experiment station movement in Russia 001 



Present status of the experiment stations in Russia 603 



Recent work in agricultural science 605 



Notes 699 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Methods of determining potash and the best precipitants of platinum, A. Atter- 



berg 605 



Modifications of the Kjeldahl method for determining nitrogen, A. Atterberg. . 605 

 Contribution to investigations on manganese in minerals, plants, and animals, 



P. Richard 605 



The quantitative separation of hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin, and the 



occurrence of pentosans in these substances, W. Hoffmeister 606 



Proceedings of the fourteenth annual convention of the Association of Official 



Agricultural Chemists 606 



Report of the chemist, J. B. Liudsey 607 



BOTANY. 



Experiments on the production of alpine characters in plants by the alterna- 

 tion of extreme temperatures, G. Bonnier 608 



Half shade and vegetation, B. D. Halsted 610 



Influence of carbon dioxid on the form and structure of plants, E. C. Tdodo- 



resco 610 



On the poisonous effect of the salts of copper on the higher plants, IT. Coupin. (ill 



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