EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

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



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

 Foods and Animal Production — 0. F. Laxgworthy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops — J. I. Schclte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVl, NO. i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Hon. Joseph H. Brigham, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture 1 



A trihute to agricultural research 3 



The experiment stations of the world 5 



A refinement of methods of investigation 7 



New live stock building at the Minnesota College of Agriculture 8 



Recent work in agricultural science 14 



Notes .". 109 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Comparison of methods for the estimation of soil acidity, F. P. Veitch 14 



Notes on rapid soil analysis, V. Edwards 15 



Determination of phosphoric acid as magnesium pyrophosphate, K. K. Jar- 



vinen 15 



Volumetric determination of potash, W. Kuster and M. Griiters 15 



The determination of nitrogen, L. Debourdeaux 15 



Estimation of nitrites in waters, J. Desfourniaux and L. Robin 15 



The rendering visible of ultramicroscopic particles and their measurement, H. 



Siedentopf and R. Zsigmondy 15 



Ultramicroscopic investigations, Much, Romer, and Siebert 16 



Ultramicroscopic studies of solutions of albumins and carbohydrates, E. 



Raehlmann 17 



Ultramicroscopic investigations, Raehlmann 17 



The distribution of nitrogen in the proteid molecule, T. Gi'imbel 17 



Nitrogenous compounds in ungerminated seeds, E. Schulze and N. Castoro... 17 



Principal phosphorus compound in wheat bran, A. J. Patten and E. B. Hart. 18 



Cleavage products of elastin, E. Abderhalden and A. Schittenhelm 18 



Notes on lupeol, E. Schulze 18 



On the detection of cocoanut oil in lard, F. Morrschock 18 



Detection of butter adulteration by the phytosterin acetate test, INI. Siegfeld.. 18 



A contribution to the investigation of cheese, J. B. Nagelvoort 19 



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