EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Agricultural Chemistry and Agrotechny — E. H. Nollau. 

 Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers {J; ^f; ||^^unger. 



Agricultural Botany, Bacteriology, and Plant Pathology j^* ^- g^^D ^' ^^' ^' 



Field Crops — J. I. SchUlte and G. M. Tucker, Ph. D. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



[C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D., D. Sc. 

 Foods and Human Nutrition ^H. L. Lang. 



[C. F. Walton, Jr. 

 Zootechny, Dairying, and Dairy Farming — H. Webster. 

 Veterinary Medicine {W; A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering — R. W. Trullinger. 

 Rural Economics — E. Merritt. 

 Agricultural Education — C. H. Lane. 

 Indexes — M. D. Moore. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Establishment of a Division of Agricultural Meteorology in the U. S. 



Weather Bureau 601 



Recent progress in agricultural meteorology 604 



Recent work in agricultural science 607 



Notes 695 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry — agrotechny. 



Physiological chemistry, Mathews. .'. 607 



Biochemical hand lexicon, edited by Abderhalden 607 



Quantitative laws in biological chemistry, Arrhenius 607 



Oils of the coniferae. — V, The oils of incense cedar, Schorger 607 



Polymerization of Chinese wood oil, Schumann 607 



The carbohydrates of pine wood, Hagglund 608 



Apparatus for evaporating aqueous extracts by a current of air, Aldrich 608 



A check valve for suction flasks, Walton 608 



Micromethod for gasometric determination of amino nitrogen. Van Slyke 608 



Reco'v'ery of molybdic acid from phosphorus-determination residues, Berkhout. 608 



Examination of water for sanitary and technic purposes, Leffmann 609 



Investigation on the acid and alkali content of soils, Stutzer and Haupt 609 



Rapid method for analyses of limestone for agricultural processes, Behrman 609 



A rapid method for the determination of carbon dioxid, W'aggaman 610 



Estimation of carbon dioxid in ash of plant and animal substances, Kuzirian. 610 



Food analyses; typical methods and the interpretation of results, Woodman. . . 610 



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