EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED 15 Y 



A. C. TKUE, Ph. D., Director, 



AND 



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



W. H. Beal — Meteorolony, Fertilizers (inclnding metliods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricnitural Engineering. 

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



Horticulture, Entomology, and Veterinary Science, 



L. P. Smith — Field Cro^js. 



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



F. H. Hall — Statistics and Bibliography. 



With tlie cooperation of the scieutitic divisions of the Department and the Abstract 

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. 4. 



Editorial note : The factor for protein in foods and feeding stufts 269 



The convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1896 272 



Recent work in agricultural science 279 



Notes 354 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistky. 



The calculation of the protein from the nitrogen content of the seeds of plants, 



H. Kitthausen 279 



Constitution of the cereal celluloses, C. F. Cross, E. J. Bevan, and C. Smith.. 280 



The pentosans contained in plants, especially feeding stuil's, their determina- 

 tion and properties, B. Tollens 281 



On the relation between the citrate solubility and soil solubility of phosphoric 

 acid, with special reference to Thomas slag, O. Foerster 281 



A method for separating the '' insoluble"' phosphoric acid in mixed fertilizers 

 derived from bone and other organic matter from that derived i'rom rock 

 phosphates, A. P. Bryant 283 



On the \arious modifications of the Pemberton volumetric method of determin- 

 ing ])hosphoric acid in commercial fertilizers, F. P. Veitch 283 



A modified ammoniuin molybdate solution, A. L. Winton 283 



The polarimetric determination of lactose in human milk, P. Thibault 284 



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