EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



EDITED BY 



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



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

 W. II. Bkal — Meteorology, Fertilizers (including methods of analysis), Soils, and 



Agricultural Engineering. 

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

 C. F. LaNGWOKTHY, Ph. I).— Foods and Animal Production. 



F. C. Kenvox, 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. 10. 



Page. 



Editorial notes: Agricultural appropriation hill 901 



Origin and formation of organic matter in plants, P. P. Deherain 903 



Recent work in agricultural science 917 



Notes 1000 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



A contribution to the method of extracting fat, E. Voit 917 



On the determination of fat and casein in feces, H. Poole !»17 



Chemical and bacteriological investigations on the fermentation of fresh grass, 



O. E lamerling 918 



Reflux condensers, B. H. Hite 918 



Apparatus for extracting with ether, B. H. Hite 919 



Drying apparatus, B. H. Hite 919 



Chemical division, H. J. Wheeler 919 



BOTANY. 



The relation of nutrient salts to turgor, A. B. Copeland 919 



Homology of organs as shown in cuttings. L. C. Corhett 919 



Development of roots from cuttings, L. C. Corhett 921 



Increase of the nitrogen of the soil by white mustard, S. von Kowerski 920 



The permeability of tree trunks to gases, H. Devaux 920 



Root tubercles in water cultures, H. A. Weber 920 



The tensile strength of cell walls, H. H. Dixon : 921 



On the composition of the membranes of some fungi, C. Tanret 921 



A device for measuring plant growth, L. C . Corhett . 921 



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