EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assutant 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 Crop.'; — J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Food.>^ 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. ii. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Breeding projects at the American stations 1001 



Animal breeding as a subject of research 1002 



Recent work in agricultural science 1006 



Notes 1095 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Agricultural chemistry, Morgen and Fingerling 1006 



Chemical industry in relation to agriculture, Frank 1006 



Behavior of aluminum in milk, wine, and salt solutions. Von Fillinger 1006 



On the precipitation of magnesium as ammonium-magnesium phosphate, Raffa. 1006 



The theory of the titrametric determination of phosphoric acid 1006 



Determination f)f water-soluble phosphoric acicl in superphosphates, Schucht. . 1006 



The determination of nitrogen in calcium cyanamid, Girasoli 1007 



Comparative deferminaticms of hardness in water, Klut 1007 



The determination of the clay content of soils, Fletcher 1007 



Shaking as a means of ])reparing soils for mechanical analysis, Kashinski 1007 



Methods of testing the efficiency of ventilation, Richards et al 1008 



Protein hydrolysis. Employment of hydrofluoric acid, Hugounenq and Morel. 1008 



The hydrolysis of fish muscle, Osborne and Heyl 1008 



Concerning the constitution of phytin, Neuberg 1008 



Extending the use of the precipitin reaction, Fiehe 1008 



Concerning the identification of starch, IMoemendal 1008 



The polarimetric determination of starch, Lintner 1008 



The alkalinity of meat a.«h and the ash of some casein ])reparati()ns, Kicklon. . 1009 



The identification of horse meat by the biological method, Scliiiller 1009 



Examination of sau.sage, Kreis 1009 



Identification of honeys and detection of cano sugar, F'iehe 1000 



The detection of formic acid in honey, Merl 1009 



Error in the estimation of caffein, Lendrich and Murdfield 1009 



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