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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



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



AND 



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

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



Agricultural Engineering. 

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

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



F. C. Kenyon, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 E. A. Emerson — Horticulture. 



J. I. Schulte — Field Crops. 



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

 Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS of Vol. IX, No. 5. 



Tagc. 



Editorial note : Agriculture in Alaska 401 



The convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1897, W. 



H. Beal 404 



Recent work in agricultural science 415 



Notes 500 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The determination of crude fiber in cereals, J. N. Hurty 415 



Detection of sulphocyanates, C. L. Penny 420 



The determination of phosphoric acid, H. Lasne 415 



Volumetric estimation of phosphoric acid, B. W. Kilgore 416 



The determination of potash by reduction of potassium-platinum chlorid with 



sodium formate, B. Sjollema 416 



On the use of sodium superoxid for separating iron oxid and alumina, C. 



Glaser 417 



On the determination of iron oxid and alumina in phosphates, N. Biattner and 



J. Brasseur 417 



A source of error in the Kjeldahl method of determining nitrogen, B. Sjollema. 418 



ZOOLOGY. 



Susceptibility of spermophiles to pathogenic bacteria, A. B. Kibbe 422 



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