EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: K. W. ALLEN, Pii. D., Assistant Director. 



!•: I) I TOK I A L 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. Schilte. 



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 OflBcial Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XIII, No. 5. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, deceased 401 



Agricultural education in England under the county councils 402 



Convention of Association of OfRcial Agricultural Chemists, 1901, D. W. May. . 406 



Recent work in agricultural science 416 



Notes , 495 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



Convention of Association of Agricultural Experiment Stations in Germany.. 416 



Proceedings of committee on foods and feeding [of above association] 417 



A rapid method of determining carbonic acid in air, J. Haldane 417 



On the determination of humus in cultivated soils, K. Bieler and K. Aso 417 



Determination of phosphoric acid 'a soils by means of centrifuge, E. Gully... 418 



Claim of ]iriority regarding determination of phosphates, C. Lepierre 418 



Determination of calcium and magnesium in natural waters, L. W. ^AMnkler. . . 418 



Determination of ammonia, nit/icacid, etc., in natural waters, L. W. Winkler. 418 



Determination of dissolved oxygen in waters, S. Rideal and C. G. Stewart 418 



Method for rapid estimation of sugar in beets, R. S. Hiltner and R. W. Thatcher. 418 



Determination of purity of beet juice by Krause's method, F. Ehrlich 419 



Methods of analysis, Graftiau 419 



The estimation of glycogen in flesh, G. Breustedt 419 



Composition of the ether extract from a numl)erof fodders, N. Tulaikov 419 



-Outline of work on foods and feeiling stuffs for 1901, W. H. Krug 420 



The analysis of potable water, milk, foods, etc. , H. Lajoux et al 420 



Succinct directions for the analysis of wines, beer, cider, etc., P. Goupil 420 



Detection of arsenic in beers, etc., W. Thompson and J. P. Shenton 420 



The pentosan content of various fruits and vegeta])les, C. Wittmann 420 



Distinction of true extract of vanilla from li(iuid preparations, W. H. Hess — 420 



('ouinarin and vanillin, their separation, etc., W. H. Hess and A. B. Prescott. 420 



Contribution to the analysis of tanning materials, J. Paessler 421 



Determination of tanning matter in tanning materials, T. Koerner 421 



Notes on determination of soluble matter in tanning extracts, A. B. Searle — 421 



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