EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



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



AND 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., Assistant Director — Cliemistry and Dairying. 



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



Agricultural Engineering. 

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



, — 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 coiiperaf ion of tlie scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. 3. 



Page. 

 Editorial note : Suggestions regarding the improvement of station publications . 177 



The formation of fat in the animal body, Selik Soskin 179 



Recent work in agricultural science 192 



Notes , 268 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



On the action of certain plant acids on insoluble phosphates in the presence of 



nitrates, G. Loges 192 



Upon the determination of magnesium oxid as magnesium pyrophosphate, 



H. Neubauer ; 192 



Precipitation of phosphoric acid in the citrate extract of Thomas slag by 



means of molybdic solution, M. Schmoeger 193 



An accurate volumetric method for determining phosphoric acid and arsenic 



acid, A. Christensen 193 



A study of the Kjeldahl method and its modifications, G. Rivifere and G. Bail- 



hache 194 



The determination of potash, C. Fabre 195 



The quantitative determination of crude fiber in foods and condiments, G. Bau- 



mert 196 



On the analysis of flour and of fat in Avheat and rye flour, E. Spaeth 196 



Analysis and composition of canned meats, R. Hefielmann 197 



Copper cyanid reagent for the determination of glucose, A. W. Gerrard 197 



On the determination of glucose, Causse 198 



A method for the separation of galactose and arabinose, E. Subaschow 198 



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