EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Kditor: l-]. W. ALLEN, I'li. I)., Assixtnut l>ln'rt<,r. 

 i:i )rn )Ri A I, departments. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farnuiig, and Dairying — The Editor and H. W. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and Agricultural 



P^ngineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Entomology and Veterinary Science — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scieiititic divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV. NO. 4. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, a pioneer in agricultural science 309 



New yearbook of the Russian experiment stations 811 



Convention of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 



Stations, D. J. Crosby 813 



Recent work in agricultural science 326 



Notes - : 409 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CUEMISTRV. 



The nucleic acid of the wheat eml)ryo, T. B. Osborne and I. F. Harris 326 



On the determination of phosphoric acid in plants, G. Sokolov 327 



Cheujical methods of determining the productiveness of soils, K. K. Gedroiz . 327 



Amount of hydrochloric acid required for digestion of soils, P. Kossovich . . . 327 



On the question of the determination of humus in soils, P. Kossovich 327 



The determination of lime and magnesia in water, A. Cirittner 327 



Tiie determination of nitric acid in water, R. Woy 328 



Rapid estimation of boric acid in Itutter, H. D. Richmond, J. B. P. Harrison. 328 



Determination of lecithin in milk, F. Bordas and S. de Raczkowski 328 



Dei)artment of chemistry, A. L. Knisely 328 



( )n a new acid indicator, L. J. Simon 328 



A vacuum desiccator heated by regulated incandescent lights, A. Skita 328 



Agricultural chemistry in the nineteenth century, AV. Frear 328 



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