EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. IX, A.ssiMant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — Tlie Editor and PI. 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 and Veterinary Science — 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 Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XIII, No. 3. 



Papre. 



Editorial notes: 



Need for investigation in stock breeding 201 



Organization of the Bureau of Soils 203 



The use of funds for lease of college land grant 204 



New agricultural building 205 



Prof. Max. Maercker, deceased 206 



The ash constituents of plants; their estimation and their importance to agri- 

 cultural chemistry and agriculture, B. Tollens 207 



Recent work in agricultural science 221 



Notes 293 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



Methods of chemical soil investigation, G. Berju 221 



On the methods of chemical investigation of soils, B. Sjollema 221 



( )n tlie determination of the potash content of soils, A. Ri'impler 221 



Analysis of soils, J. A. Murray 221 



Err( ir in method of Kubel-Tiemann for organic matter in drinking Maters, Duy k 222 

 Determination of nitric nitrogen in water by means of stannous chlorid, II. 



Ilenriet '. 222 



A}>{)aratus for determination of nitrogen in nitrates ])y Schulze-Tiemann method 222 



On the detennination of chlorin in natural waters, E. G. Smith 222 



I tctection of l)icarl)onates in waters, E. Pozzi-Escot 222 



Deterniiimtion of su]i)hids, hydrosulijhids, and thiosulphates, A. Gautier 222 



Notes on recent work of German Sugar Conunission, A. Herzfeld 222 



Volumetric estimation of invert sugar, F. Stolle 222 



The determination of mannose in sugar-cane products, H. Pellet 222 



A multii)le fat extractor, (\ 1^. IViniy -22 



Comparison of Rei('liert-Meissl nuiul)ers obtained in analvsis of butter, M. 



Siegfeld '. 223 



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