EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Pii. 1)., Assistant. JJlrcctur. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology, Fertilizers 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. Schulti^. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the coox^eration of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XV, NO. 9. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1904-5 839 



Inauguration of experiment station work in Cuba 842 



An experiment in secondary agricultural instruction 844 



Levi Stockbridge, deceased 844 



Recent work in agricultural science 846 



Notes 938 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



Direct determination of potassium in the ash of plants, E. M. East 846 



A method for the direct determination of alumina, C. E. Rueger 846 



Eudiometric and gravimetric methods of determining ammonia, E. Riegler 846 



On the determination of nitrites in the absence of air, J. K. Phelps 846 



The determination of total carbon in coal and soil, S. W. Parr 846 



Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, especially by electricity, F. von Lepel 847 



Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by electrical discharges, F. von Lepel 847 



The determination of hygroscopicity, H. Rodewald and A. Mitscherlich 847 



Investigations at the Sugar Experiment Station laboratory, C. A. Browne, jr . 847 



Dry defecation in optical sugar analysis, W. D. Home 848 



Hydrolysis of maltose and of dextrin and determination of starch, W. A. 



Noyes et al 848 



Concerning the hydrolysis of cellulose with sulphurous acid, F. Zimmer 848 



The bodies called fiber and carbohydrates in feeding stuffs, P. Schweitzer 848 



Determination of gliadin in wheat flour by means of polariscope, H. Snyder. . 849 



Precipitation of proteids by alcohol and other reagents, M. Christine Tebb 849 



Results of biological studies of proteids, A. Partheil 850 



Some experiments in biochemical synthesis, S. B. Schryver 850 



A new method for the determination of cocoanut oil in butter, E. Polenske. . . 850 

 Determination of the adulteration of butter bv cocoanut oil, A. Miintz and H. 



Coudon - 850 



