EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. AELEX, Pii. 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 — 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 scientitic divisions of the Department and the Abstract 



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XIII, No. 4. 



Editorial notes: Paeo. 



A school of practical agriculture and horticulture ,-a, 1 



Farm practice in agricultural education 302 



A graduate school of agriculture 303 



The new Bureau of Agriculture for the Philippine Islands 304 



Th«^ ash constituents of ptants; their estimation and their importance to agri- 

 cultural chemistry and agriculture, Part II, B. Tollens 305 



Recent work in agricultural science 318 



Notes 397 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Analysis of fertilizers, D. Sidersky 318 



The rapid determination of water-soluble phosphoric acid in superphosphates, 



L. von Szell 318 



Adaptability of the molybdic method to the determination of citric-acid solu- 



Vjle i>hosphoric acid in Thomas slag, O. Foerster 318 



Estimation of phosphates in potable waters, A. G. Woodman and L. L. Cay van. 319 



On the determination of dry matter in soil samples, H. Puchner 319 



Calcium carbonate in soils, and new apparatus for its determination, M. Passon . 319 



The determination of lime in soil samples, E. Hotter 320 



Complete analysis of feeding materials, C. A. Browne, jr., and C. P. Beistle 320 



Hvdrochloric-acid-phloroglucin method in determination of pentosans, E. 



krober 320 



The determination of pentosans, G. S. Fraps 321 



The nature of pentosoids and their determination, G. S. Fraps 321 



Determination of organic nitrogen by different methods, A. Van Engelen 321 



Research work in plant ash determinations, A. E. Shuttleworth 321 



Household tests for detection of oleomargarine and renovated butter, G. E. 



Patrick 321 



Volumetric estimation of boric acid, H. Liihrig 322 



Determination of the hardness of water, >I. Pleissner 322 



Determination of the addition of water to wine, A. Gautier et al 322 



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