EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farminji;, and Dairying — The Editor and H. W. Lawson. 

 Meteorolo^'v, Fertilizers and (Soils (including methods of analysis) and Agricultural 



Engineering — \V. H. Beal. 

 Botany and Diseases of Plants — Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 Foods and Animal Production — C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops^J. I. Schulte. 



Entomology and Veterinary Science — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 

 Hoi'ticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XV, NO. i. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: 



The mission of the farmers' institute 1 



Organization of farmers' institutes 3 



Introduction of agriculture at the Mt. Hermon school 4 



New agricultural building at the University of Wisconsin 6 



Kecent work in agricultural science 12 



Notes 98 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 

 chemistry. 



Report on progress in agricultural chemistry, F. Mach - 12 



Th'^ chemistry of plant and animal life, H. Snyder 12 



Ash constituents of cereals, W. P. Gamble 12 



Ash analyses of some New Mexico plants, A. Goss 13 



Detection and determination of ammonia in waters, Manget and Marion 13 



Investigation of the fat of guinea corn, N. F. Andreyev 13 



Action of sulphuric acid on legumen, 1). P. Pryanishnikov 14 



A new eudiometer, ]M . Silberberg 14 



Reports of the directors of the government analytical laboratories, 1902 14 



BOTANY. 



Economic plants of Porto Rico, O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins 15 



Studies of Mexican and Central American plants — No. 3, J. N. Rose 15 



Certain Mexican and Guatemalan species of Polypodium, W. R. Maxon 15 



Poison ivy, G. E. Stone 15 



Textile plants cultivated in Brazil and Argentina, C. D. (Tirola 15 



Effect of climate on the anatomical stru(;ture of plants, G. Bonnier 15 



The upper temperature limits of life, W. A. Setchell 16 



Chemical stimulation and the evolution of carbon dioxid, E. B. Copeland 16 



The occurrence of spherulins in plant families, L. Petit 1' 



Experimental studies on inulase, A. L. Dean - 17 



Influence of formaldehyde on the growth of fresh water algfc, R. Bouilhac. . . 17 



The motility of Ehizobium mutab'de, A. Schneider 1 ' 



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