EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Pn. I)., AssiMaiit JUnrtor. 



KDITOKIAI. DErAHTMKNTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farniiuir, and Dairyin^r — The Editor an<l II. W. Lawson. 

 Meteorolofiy, FertiHzeis and Soils (ineludinii methods of analysis), and Agricuhural 



Enjrineering — W. H. Bkai.. 

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

 Foods and Animal Prochiction — C F. La.\(;\vokthy, Ph. D. 

 Fiel<l Crops — J. I. Sciulte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department and the Abstract 



Committee of the Association of OfKciai Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XIII, No. i. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



Investigations of poisonous plants ] 



The Hungarian experiment station system 3 



Agricultural experiment stations of Hungary 4 



Recent work in agricultural science 14 



Notes - 99 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Determination of phosphoric acid in fertilizers, etc., N. von Lorenz 14 



Determination of clay in soils, A. Pagnoul 15 



Adie and Wood method for potassium, C. Baskerville and I. F. Harris 15 



The testing of drinking water with the Erdmann reagent, A. Ferman 15 



Fitch's salt analysis, A. ^'ivian 16 



Quick method for estimating sodium chlorid in meat, F. Glage 16 



Calculated and analytii-al results for solids of milk, H. Liihrig 16 



The estimation of dry matter, fat, and ash in milk, H. Timpe 16 



Estimation of fat in milk, R. Lt''ze 16 



The guiac test for pasteurized and unpasteurized milk, F. (ilage 16 



Modilication of Ritthausen's method f(jr albuminoid nitrogen, F. Barnstein. . . 16 



Tal)le.s for use in Kjeldahl method for nitrogen, A. Vivian 16 



The chemistry of jiroteids, A. Cohenheim 16 



The microscopy of the more commonly occurring starches, H. Gait 17 



The anatomy of maize c( A), A. L. Winton 17 



Estimation of tartaric acid in wine, L. M. de la Source 17 



Detennination of salicylic acid in wines, L. Zanardi 17 



Volumetric estimation of boric acid, J. Wolff 17 



Estimation of cacao hulls in cacao preparations, F. Filsinger 17 



Chemical composition of materials, II. A. Huston and A. H. Bryan 17 



Identification of carbon monoxid in l»loo(I and air, S. Koster 17 



Measuring higher temperatures by means of spectrum apparatus, W. Hempel. 17 



The essential oil industry of Michigan, A. M. Todd 17 



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