EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

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



Engineering — W. IL Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Sciiulte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XV, NO. ii. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



General Index to Experiment Station Record 1033 



A decennial summary of station work 1034 



The experiment station in the role of newspaper editor , 1035 



Respiration calorimeter at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station, H. P. 



Armsby .' 1037 



Recent work in agricultural science • 1051 



Notes 1137 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



Determination of citric-acid soluble phosphoric acid in Thomas slag, R. Sorge. 1051 



On citrate-soluble phosphoric acid, P. M. Van Haarst .' 1051 



On the solubility of soil constituents, F. Mach 1051 



Water-soluble plant food of soils, H. Snyder 1051 



A ohort method for the determination of potash, J. Hasenbaumer 1052 



Determination of available lime and magnesia in the soil, T. Katayama 1052 



Determination of sodium perchlorate in commercial sodium nitrate, H. 



Li'maitre 1052 



The quantitative determination of nitric acid in water, A. F. Dokatschajew. . . 1052 

 Applicability of the Schloesing method of determining nitric nitrogen in the 



presence of organic matter, P. Liechti and E. Ritter 1053 



Comparison of simple methods of determining carbon dioxid in air, A. F. 



Lauenstein 1053 



Contributions to technical chemical analysis, G. Lunge 1053 



A possible source of error in fat determinations bv the extraction methods, 



C. Barthel x ". 1053 



On the quantitative sei)aration of maltose an<l lactose, C. I. Boyden 1053 



Analysis of formaldehyde sold in North Dakota, E. F. Ladd. . .' 1053 



Miscellaneous analyses, C. II. Jones 1053 



Report of the division of chemistry, A. M. Peter 1053 



Report of chemical control station, Trondhjem, Norway, 1902, E. Solberg 1054 



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