EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



KDITEI) BY 



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



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

 W. H. ]?EAL — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including methods of analysis). Soils, and 



Agricultural Enginee^uug. 

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

 Horticulture. 



F. H. Hall— Field Crops. 



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

 F. C. Kenyon, Ph. D. — Entomology. 



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

 Committee of the Association of Ofticial Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. 7. 



Editorial note : Report to Congress on the work and expenditures of the experi- 

 ment stations 539 



Tenth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 



and Experiment Stations, W. H. Beal 541 



Recent work in agricultural science 559 



Notes 638 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



A new method for the determination of ses(]uioxids in phosphates and super- 

 phosphates, von Grueber 559 



Solubility of phosphates in citric acid and ammonium citrate, O. Foerster 560 



Natural and industrial pho-sphates: III. The insoluble residue, H. Lasne 560 



The determination of phosphoric acid in potable water, C. Lepierre 560 



The determinati(m of albumen in cows' milk, L. L. Van Slyke 560 



Potassium chromate as a milk preservative, J. Froidevaux 561 



Analyses of ores and minerals, M. B. Hardin 563 



Report of chemical division of Rhode Island Station, H. .1. Wheeler 563 



Rejiort of the chemist of South Carolina Station, M. B. Hardin 561 



BOTANY. 



Fertile crosses of teosinte and maize, J. W. Harshberger .563 



Inlluence of nitrogen on root lormation, H. Miillcr-Thurgau 564 



The role of bacteria in the nutrition of insectivorous plants, N. Tiscluikin 564 



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