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. Kenyox, Ph. D. — Entomology and Veterinary Science. 

 R. 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. 8. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: Statistics of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic aits 



and the experiment stations 701 



Agricultural education and research in the Scandinavian countries and Finland, 



F.W. Woll 703 



Recent work in agricultural science 720 



Notes 800 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The principal amid of sugar cane, E. S. Shorey 720 



Toxalbumoses which coagulate blood, M. Elfstrand 720 



Report of the chemist, R. De Roode 721 



Report of the chemist, W. B, Hardin 724 



The determination of nitrogen in organic substances by the Kjeldahl- Wilfarth 



method, R. de Bdhtlingk 721 



The determination of the total volatile fatty acids in butter, E. Wrampelmeyer . 722 



The detectiou of foreign fats in lard and butter, C. B. Cochran 722 



BOTANY. 



Report of the botanist and microscopist for 1891, C. F. Millspaugh 726 



Report of the botanist, H. L. Bolley 726 



Experimental investigations on the assimilation of ammouiacal and nitric nit- 

 rogen by the higher plants, E. Laurent, E. Marchal, and E. Carpiaux 724 



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