EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. I)., AssiMant Diredor. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and IL W. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers* and Soil^ (including methods of analysis), and Agricultural 



Engineering— W. II. Beal. 

 Botany and DL-^eases of Plants — Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 Foods and Animal Production— C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops — J. L Schtlte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific division? of the Department and the Abstract 



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIII. NO. lo. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



^Meeting of farmers' institute workers at Washington 907 



Agricultural experiment stations for Victoria, Australia 909 



Permanent location of Porto Rico station 910 



An enthusiastic view of American stations and colleges 911 



Recent work in agricultural science 913 



Xotes 1004 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



The development of chemistry, F. W. Clarke 913 



Report on progress in agricultural chemistry, A. Heheljrand 913 



Status of agricultural chemistry at beginning of twentieth century, T. Pfeiffer. 913 



Report on progress in animal chemistry, M. von Nencki and R. Andreasch 913 



A few of the recent advances in biochemistry, A. Kossel 913 



Text-book of agricultural chemistry, A. ISIayer 913 



Me.tho<ls of standardizing acid solutions, C. G. Hopkins 913 



Determination of available plant food in soils, A. D. Hall and F. J. Plynien . 914 



Methods of analysis ailopted for soils, fertilizers, etc., F. B. (Juthrie 914 



Rapid eudiomctric metiiod of determining chlorin, etc., E. Riegler 914 



Determination of pliospiioric acid in organic substances, F. Rieger 915 



Colorimetric method for determining oxygen in water, W. Ramsay, I. Homfray. 915 



A method for estimating fat, <t. Rosenfeld 915 



A test for the coloring matter of butter, J. Vandriken 915 



Temperature reaction of oils with sulphuric acid, H. C. Sherman et al 915 



Relation of heat of combustion to specific gravitv in fattvoils, H. C. Sherman 



and J. F. Snell .'.......■. 915 



The use of the Bechi or silver nitrate test on oHve oils, L. M. Tolman 915 



A study of the Bechi test for cotton-seed oil, A. H. (Jill and C. H. Dennison.. 915 



A .«tudy of some cotton-.«eed oils,.!. B. Weems and H. N. (irettenberg 915 



The determination of starch in the cereal grains, Lindet 9ir> 



Researches on cellulose, C. F. ( "ross and E. ,1. Bevan 91(> 



The determination of sulphur in plants, (i. S. Fraps 91G 



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