EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 

 A. C. TRUE, PH. D., Director, 



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. — Botany and Diseases of Plants. 

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



F. C- Kexyox, 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. 7. 



Page. 



Editorial notes : Some unfortunate tendencies in station work 601 



Agricultural education and research in the Scandinavian countries and Finland, 



F. W. Wool 605 



Recent work in agricultural science 617 



Notes 700 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Reasons for the variation in the citrate solubility of Thomas slag meal, P. 



Wagner 617 



Volumetric method for the determination of combined sulphuric acid, F. Mar- 



boutin and M. Molinie 617 



The volumetric estimation of phosphoric acid 618 



A new method of estimating fat in animal substances (preliminary notice), 



E. Bogdanow 618 



The direct determination of calcium carbonate, F. Sestini 619 



Application of hydrogen peroxid to the analysis of food stuffs, Lebbin 619 



The determination of starch in the sweet potato, F. S. Shiver 619 



BOTANY. 



Studies of Mexican and Central American plants, J. N. Rose 623 



An important function of leaves, U. Suzuki 621 



On the behavior of active albumin as a reserve material duTing winter and 



spring, U. Suzuki 622 



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