EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: K. W. ALJ.EN, Pii. D., Assistant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Duiryinjj — The Editor and II. W. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (iiu'liiding methods of analysis), and Agrieultnral 



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Sciiulte. 



Entomology and Veterinary Science — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. 1). 

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the De])artment. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV, NO. i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Increased funds for station maintenance 1 



Education of the American farmer 3 



Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers 4 



Recent work in agricultural science 5 



Notes 97 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



Report of chemical laboratory of Ploti Experiment Station, B. M, Velbel 5 



Method for determining small quantities of carbonates, A. D. Hall and E. J. 



Russell 5 



Estimation of alkaline hydrate in presence of monocarljonate, B. North 6 



Detection of magnesia in ammonium oxalate precipitates of lime, A. Tiiubner. . 6 



Determination of c-esium and rubidium as hydrosulphate, etc., P. E. Browning. 6 



A contribution to the knowledge of metaphosiihate, A. Wiesler 6 



On calcium carbophosi:)hate, A. Barille 6 



Phospho-molyljdenum compounds, F. Mawrow 6 



The use of weak solvents in soil analysis, A. D. Hall and F. J . Plymen 6 



Report on uniformity in analysis of materials for the Portland cement industry. 6 



Determination of nitrates in water, S. R. Trotman and H. Peters 6 



The determination of nitrogen, E. Durand 7 



Contribution to the determination of nitrogen, A. Hebebrand 7 



Argand burner for use in Kjeldahl estimation of nitrogen, J. Golding 7 



On the Kjeldahl method, C. Neuberg 7 



1 norgaiiic ferments, D. Mcintosh 7 



Provisional methods for analysis of foods, edited by H. W. Wiley and W. D. 



Bigelow 7 



Nitrogen- free extract matter in potatoes, C. H. Jones and B. O. White 7 



Nitrogen-free extract matter in artichokes, C. H. Jones and B. 0. White 8 



Concerning the sugars and organic acids in tropical fruits, A. Borntraeger 8 



The constituents of corn pith and elder juth, etc., C. A. Browne, jr 8 



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