EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Director. 

 Assistant Editor: H. L. Knight. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. H. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany and Vegetable Pathology — W. H. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



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



Zootechny, Dairying, and Agrotechny — E. W. Morse. 



Agricultural Chemistry — W. H. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and E. W. Morse. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — W. A. Hooker. 



Rural Engineering — G. A. Griffin. 



Rural Economics — J. B. Morman. 



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XX, NO. 6. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



A review of recent progress in agriculture in the United States 501 



New building of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 507 



Recent work in agricultural science 509 



Notes 593 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



agricultural chemistry. 



A wax acid from soils, Schreiner and Shorey 509 



Presence of a cholesterol substance in soils — agrosterol, Schreiner and Shorey. . 509 



The Schone and Appiani methods of physical analysis of soils, De Lucchi 509 



Application of cobalti-nitrite method to soils, Drushel 509 



Detection of ammonia in water, Lambotte 510 



The estimation of phosphoric acid in food materials, Rieter 510 



Determining the ash content of honey by Ley's method, Schwarz 510 



The determination of malic acid in food products, Cowles, jr '' 510 



The estimation of alcohol in fermented liquids, Antoni 510 



The determination of cotton-seed hulls in cotton-seed meal, Fraps 510 



Mitchell-Walker moisture test, Mitchell and Walker 510 



Regarding the methods of investigations of butter and other fats. Grimmer 511 



Comparison of different methods of estimating the fat content of cream, Kersten. 511 



A revolving balance, Wendler 511 



Determining the energy value of urine, Zaitschek 511 



Report of food commissioner and chemist, Ladd 511 



Report of chemical section of Hygienic Institute of Halle, Klostermann 512 



[Miscellaneous analyses], Ladd 512 



Commercial Sicilian sumac, Veitch and Howard 512 



Official and provisional methods of analysis, edited by Wiley 512 



Proceedings of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, edited by Wiley. 513 



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