EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



A. C. TRUE, P^. D., Director, 



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

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



Agricultural Engineering. 

 Walter H. Eva^.s, Ph. D. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

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

 L. P. Smith— Field Crops. 



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

 F. H. Hall — Statistics and Bibliography. 

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



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. 2. 



Editorial note : The Second Internatioual Congress of Applied Chemistry 95 



Recent work iu agricultural science 99 



Notes 176 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemlstky. 



On the estimation of organic matter by means of chromic acid, J. Barnes 99 



On the preparation of water free from ammonia, J. Barnes 99 



Note on a difficulty encountered in determining nitrogen by the absolute method, 



W. R. Dunstan and F. H. Carr 99 



Combination of atmospheric and chemical nitrogen with metals, P. L. 



Astanglon 99 



Determination of the citrate-soluble phosphoric acid in Thomas slag by direct 



precipitation of the citrate solution obtained in the Wagner method, W. 



Hotfmeister IGO 



Rai)id est imation of insoluble phosphate, V. Edwards 100 



Investigations on the deteruiination of phosphoric acid, C. Meineke 100 



Methods of ])hosphate analysis, O. Grothe 102 



The molecular weight and formula of phosphoric anhydrid and of nietaphos- 



phoric acid, W. A. Tilden and R. E. Baructt 103 



The determination of potash, F. T. B. Du Vri- 103 



Determination of potash, A. Prayer 103 



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