EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. \V. 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. Beau 

 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 scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI, NO. 8. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The semi-centennial of the agricultural college 733 



Rise of agricultural education in the United States 734 



The outlook for agricultural instruction 737 



Avenues open to graduates in agriculture 738 



Recent work in agricultural science 740 



Notes 833 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Determination of sulphates in plants, G. S. Fraps 740 



Colorimetric determination of phosphorus, T. E. Hewitt 740 



Determination of carbonates I >y Friihling's method, C. Montanari 740 



Simultaneous detection of nitric and nitrous acids and their determination, 



P. N. Raikow 740 



A color scale for use with Nessler's reagent, H. Bueler-de Florin 740 



Report of the chemistry division, J. C. Briinnich 740 



Cucurbits as oil plants, M. Egorov - 741 



The occurrence of phloroglucin in plants, C. Hartwich and M. Winckel 741 



The nature of raw starch grains, L. Maquenne 741 



Malt analysis, II. A. llunicke 742 



The detect! »n of watered milk, A. E. Leach and H. C. Lythgoe 742 



Determination of fat in milk, M. Henseval 742 



I determination of fat in homogenized milk, A. Burr 742 



I nvestigations with sin-acid butyrometry, Hoffmeister 742 



Relation of cows' milk to Schiff's reagent, E. Seligmann 742 



The preservation of urine samples for analysis, M. S. McDowell 742 



The determination of carbon and hydr< igen in urine, F. Thompson 743 



Kstimation of sulphuric acid in urine, R. von Lengyel 743 



Experiments on the presence of arsenic in normal tissues, M. Segale 744 



New method of estimating the carbon-dioxid content of air, B. Swaah 744 



Determination of carbon monoxid in room air, Albert-Levy and A. Pecoul . . . 744 



Invertin in honey and in the intestine of insects, Axenfeld 744 



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