EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED 15 V 



A. C. TRl'p], Pii. I)., Dircrlor, 



AND 



E. W. Allex, Pii. D., Assistant Director — Chemistry, Dairy Farming, a.ud Dairying. 

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



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Waltek it. Evaxs, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants, 



F. C. Test, M. D. — Horticulture, Entomology, and Veterinary Science. 

 L. P. Smith — Field Croijs. 



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

 F. H. Hall— Statistics and Bibliography. 



With tlie coiiperatiou of the scientific divisions of the Department and tlie Abstract 

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. i. 



Editorial notes : P.igc. 



The Hungarian National Millennium Exposition 1 



Experiment Station in Genuan East Africa 1 



Experiments on the pliysiology of cultivated plants 2 



The physiological role of water in plants, E. Gain 3 



Recent work in agricultural science 2l' 



Notes 91 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



t'HEMISTRY. 



Kjeldahl method and platinoclilorids, C. Van Dam 22 



The rapid determination of organic nitrogen, Leonard 22 



The determination of nitrogen in Peruvian guano, Heiber 22 



The determination of nitrogen in guano, E. Franke 23 



Tlie determination of nitrogen in guano, E. Haselhoff 23 



The determination of nitrogen in guano, E. Franl<e 23 



An investigation upon the use of Wagner's citrate method for the determina- 

 tion of citrate-soluble phosphoric acid in grouud Thomas slag, F. Mack and 



M. I'asson 23 



Tlie Stassfurt method of determining potash, A. Atterberg 21 



The determination of potash bj- tlie Stassfurt method, Tietjens and Apel 24 



The determination of potash as potassium jilatinic chlorid, H. Precht 24 



The decomposition of silicates liy means of boric acid, P. Jauuasch and O. 



HeidenreicU ..,.,..,........., , 24 



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