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. L Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — E. J. Glasson. 



Foods and Unman 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. 12. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Close of the twentieth volume of the Record 1101 



Recent work in agricultural science 1102 



Notes 1200 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Priiui|)l(>s and practice of agricultural analysis, Wiley 1 102 



Report of progress in agricultural chemistry in 1907, Dietrich et al 1102 



Important articles on sugar chemistry in 1908, Von Lippman 1102 



The solubility of lime in water. Moody and Leyson 1102 



The decomposition of feldspar by water. Funk 1102 



The different forms of nitrogen in proteins, Osborne et al 1102 



Products formed by the decomposition of casein, Bisaeggerand Stegmann 1103 



On the presence of isoleucin in casein, Weitzenbock 1103 



A note on the constitution of phytin, Winterstein 1104 



The inversion of cane sugar by invertase, II, Hudson 1104 



Gravimetric determination of nitric acid, Hes 1104 



Modification of the Kjeldahl method, Corradi 1104 



The determination of potash as pota.ssium molybdic phosphate, Schlicht 1104 



On the quantitative determination of potash, Kiihl 1105 



Determination of insoluble phosphoric acid. Carpenter 1105 



The determination of phosph(jric acid in Thomas slag, Romanski 1105 



Determination of caustic lime, Philossophoff 1105 



Report of committee on methods of analysis of water and sewage, Phelps et al. . 1105 



The examination of waters in place, Klut 1105 



Detection and determination of nitrates and nitrites in water, Tabuteau 1105 



A new method of detecting nitrites in drinking water, Rochaix 1 105 



The estimation of urea in urine, Benedict and Gei)hart 1105 



The determination of total sulphur in urine. Gill and Grindley 110(5 



Identification of horse meat by the biological method, Baier and Reuchlin 1100 



The identification of horse meat in sausage, Behre 1106 



The accumulation of tyrosin in preserved liver, Behre 1106 



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