EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and IL W. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, FertiHzers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and Agricultural 



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Sciiulte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XV, NO. 6. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Government aid to agriculture in Hungary 533 



Investigations on the flow of mapie sap 536 



Agricultural science at the St. Louis meeting, E. V. Wilcox 538 



Recent work in agricultural science 549 



Notes 627 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Determination of the fertility of the soils, K. K. Gedroitz 549 



Studies in soil analysis, A. Atterberg 549 



<Jn recent efforts to simplify soil analysis, Emmerling 549 



Chemical analysis of soils, R. Corradi 550 



The moiybdo-phosphoric acid reaction, C. Reichard 550. 



Estimation of chlorids, bromids, and iodids, S. Benedict and J. F. Snell 550 



On the formation of nitric acid by electrical energy, C. W. Volney 551 



Oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen by electrical discharges, F. von Lepel 551 



Determination of nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method, S. P. L. Sorensen and 



C. Pedersen 551 



Methods of analysis of separator skim milk, C. Barthel 551 



A further contribution to the methods of fat determination, M. MiiUer 551 



Olive oil and its substitutes, L. M. Tolman and L. S. Munson 551 



The estimation of moist gluten in flour, INI. Arpin 552 



t'olorimetric determination of chlorophyll in different plants, B. Jonsson 552 



Kxamination of foods, drugs, and public water supplies, R. O. Brooks 552 



The theories of indicators, J. Stieglitz 552 



The testing of chemical reagents for purity, C. Krauch 553 



('omi)arison of different types of calorimeter, J. S. S. Brame and W. A. Cowan. 553 



New form of platinum resistance thermometer, H. T. Barnes and D. Mcintosh . . 553 

 Fourth session of the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar 



Analysis, F. G. Weichmann - •'^'^3 



Work of the government laboratory for the year ended March 31, 1903, T. E. 



Thorpe 553 



Report of chemical department of Royal Agricultural Academy, 1902, II. G. 



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