EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED IJY 



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



AND 



E. \V. Ali.rn, Pu. D., Assisfaiit Director — Clieiiiistry, Dairy Earniiiiff. and Dairyiiiir. 

 W. II. JiK.VL — Meteoroloi-y, Fcrtili/tn-.s (iiu-huliug metbods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineer in g. 

 Wai.tki; H. Evans, Pii. D. — IJotany and Diseases of Plants. 

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



F. C. Kknyox, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Seieuee. 

 R. A. Emehson — Horticulture. 



J. I. SciiCLTE — Field Crops. 



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

 Coramitlee of the Association of Official Agricultural Cliemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. VIII, No. lo. 



Editorial notes: . rage. 



Agricultural appropriation bill 83ft 



Important investigations on the preservation and management of barn- 

 yard manure 840 



A review of publications on agricultural botany issued in France during 1896, 



E. Gain 811 



Recent work in agricultural science 851 



Notes 1»38 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The qiiantitativ^e separation of wheat proteids, G. L.Teller 8.") I 



A proteose of wheat, T. 15. Osl)oriie ^56 



Preparation of soluble starch and starch solution, O. Foorster 857 



A new method for the (juantitativo determination of crude (ibor, Lcbbiu 857 



A nu)dilication of Stutzor's method for the dotermiuatiou of alburainoict nitro- 

 gen in substances rich in starch, 11. Try Her 8;»8 



The fiuantitativo determination of perchlorate iu saltpeter, F. Wiuteler 859 



Recognition of perchlorate in saltpeter, Erck ^*>*^ 



The nu'ciianical analysis of basic phosphatic slags, II. W. Wiley 860 



Critical studies of the volumetric analypis of the caustic alkalies and alkaline ' 

 carbonates and the use of phenolphthalciu and methyl orange as indicators, 



F. W. Iviister 860 



Recovery of waste platinum chlorid, II. W.Wiley ^*»1 



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