EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



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



AND 



E. W. Ai.len, 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. 

 J. I. Schtjlte — Field Crops. 

 E. Y. Wilcox, Ph. D.— Entomology and Veterinary Science. 



Horticulture. 



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. n. 



Tage 

 Editorial notes : Statistics of land-grant colleges and agricultual experiment 



stations, 1898 1001 



Recent work in agricultural science 1003 



Notes 1099 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Methods for detecting adulterations of hone superphosphates with other super- 

 phosphates, F. Dupont 1003 



Estimation of pentoses, A. Gre'goire and E. Carpiaux 1003 



Contributions on the chemistry of tobacco: II, The determination of tbe non- 

 volatile organic acids in tobacco, R. Kissling 1004 



botany. 



Section of seed and plant introduction, O. F. Cook 1012 



Experiments in range improvements, J. G. Smith 1005 



On the development of the plumule and radicle of rice seed with various quan- 

 tities of water in the germinating medium, T. Yokoi 1006 



On absorption of carbohydrates by roots, J. Laurent 1006 



Investigations on the carbohydrate reserve material in bulbs and tubers, 



Leclerc du Sablon \WTI. 



