EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN. Ph. D., Chief, Office of Experiment Stations. 

 A.sslstant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. ^ 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {JJ; »• ^^^^^^^^^^^ 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriologj', and Plant Pathologj'Oy ^- ^l^^^' ^'^^' ^^' 



Ple,d Crops{J >^.s™-- 



Horticulture and Forestry — B. J. Glasson. 



Economic Zoology and Entomology — W. A. Hooker, D. V. M. 



Foods and Human Nutrition — C. F. Langworthy. Ph. D., D. Sc. 



Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming L^ j^' ^^^^^^ 



Veterinary Medicine {^•^•^?^'2,a''- 

 Rural Engineering — R. W. Trltllinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 



Agricultural Education {C- H; ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



Indexes — M. D. Mooee. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. 37, NO. 8. 



Editoiial notes: Page. 



Attendance at the agricultural colleges as affected by the war 701 



Recent work in agricultural science 709 



Notes 797 



SUBJECT LLST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Chemical studies in making alfalfa silage, Swanson and Tague 709 



The isolation of parahydroxybenzoic acid from soil, Walters 709 



Studies on the seed of Spartium junceum, Raffo 710 



Occurrence of raffinase in the seed of the jute plant, Annett 710 



The chemistry of wood.— Ill, Mannan content of the gymnosperms, Schorger. . 710 



The effects of exposure on some fluid bitmnens. Reeve and Lewis 711 



Importance of uniform culture media in examination of disinfectants, ^^'right. 711 



A smiple ultramicroscope, Kiplinger 711 



Sampling tubes for manure, alfalfa, or other organic materials, Shamel 711 



A sampling press, Clark 711 



A new filter flask, Shaw 711 



Simple apparatus for hydrogen sulphid precipitation under pressure, Fuller. . . 712 



Ashing organic materials for determination of potassium, Blumenthal et al 712 



A revision of the cobaUi-ni trite method for potash, Haff and Schwartz 712 



The solubility of calcium phosphates in citric acid, Ramsay 713 



A method for the destruction of organic matter, Gautier and Clausmann 713 



lodometric determination of chlorin in chlorids, Torossian 714 



A new test for chlorin in drinking water, Wallis • 714 



The chemical examination of potable waters.— I, Organic matter, Kolthoff 714 



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