EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEX, Ph. I)., 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 — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Entomology ami Veterinary Science — E. V. WlLCOX, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI, NO. 2. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Maj. Henry Elijah Alvord, deceased 117 



Attendance at the agricultural colleges 119 



Annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association, E. Y. Wilcox . 1 21 



Recent work in agricultural science 1 29 



Notes 213 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Estimation of nitrogen by Kjeldahl's method 1 29 



Distilling apparatus for the Kjeldahl method, E. Blanck 1 29 



A Kjeldahl apparatus, M. Siegfried L29 



Method of estimating hippuric acid, T. Pfeiffer, C. Bloch, and R. Riecke 129 



Concerning the estimation of fat, T. Pfeiffer and R. Riecke 129 



Methods of determining sulphur in organic substances, M. E. Pozzi-Escot 129 



The determination ■ <i argon in atmospheric air, II. Moissan 129 



Tables for calculating fertilizer ami feed-stuff analyses, H. B. McDonnell L30 



The valuation of feeding stuffs, T. Pfeiffer 130 



Investigation of fiber and carbohydrates in feeding stuffs, P. Schweitzer 130 



A comparison of the halogen absorption of soils, L. M. Tolman 130 



Determination of water in substances to be afterwards extracted, R. M. Bird. . F'iO 



Contribution to the question of Gottlieb or Adams, L. F. Rosengren L30 



The cryoscopy of milk, J. Winter and E. Parmentier 130 



I '(-termination of citric acid in milk, M. Beau 1 30 



Determination of dirt in milk, M. Ballo 131 



The strength of commercial formaldehyde, E. F. Ladd 131 



The adulteration of drugs, L. F. Kebler l.'il 



Report of the State chemist of Florida, 1903, R. E. Rose 1 '■'>! 



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