EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



Di:r \i; tm est. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers W. II. Beal. 



Agricultural Botany and Vegetable Pathology — W. II. Evans, Ph. D. 



Field Crops— J. I. Schi lte. 



Horticulture and Forestry- ('. B. Smith. 



Zootechnyand Human Nutrition- C. F. Langworthy, Ph. I>. 



Agrotechny, hairy Farming, and Dairying — II. W. Lawson. 



Agricultural Chemistry— W. II. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and II. \Y. Lawson. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Mediein< — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. I >. 



Rural Engineering S. M. W ward. 



Rural Economics- II. C. Taylor, Ph. I>. 

 Agricultural Education— D. .1. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Land reclamation by drainage - 1 



The need of agricultural engineers 4 



Changes in the Record - 5 



Recent work in agricultural science 6 



Notes 99 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



I determination of phosphoric acid by the citrate method, Y. Schencke <> 



Determination of phosphoric acid in Thomas sla<j, F. Westhausser 6 



Phosphoric acid determination, F. Raschig 6 



Pemberton method, I>. .1. llissink and II. Van tier Waerden 6 



Quick methods for lime, potash, and phosphoric acid, E. H. Schultze <> 



Maercker-Buhring solution, Wagner's citrate mixture, etc.. H. Svoboda 6 



Estimation of tree acid in superphosphate, .1. < tetersetzer 7 



The determination of perchlorates, M. Dittrich and H. Bollenbach 7 



Determination of perchlorates and chlorates, I >. Tschernobajeff 7 



Contribution to the analysis of nitrate of soda, R. Bensemann 7 



New method of determining magnesium carbonate, W. F. Koppeschaar 7 



Notes on the determination of nitrous acid, II. Legler 7 



Electrolytic estimation of arsenic, ('. Mai and II. Hurt 7 



I determination of boric acid, K. Windisch 7 



Gasometric determination of formaldehyde, G. B. Frankforter and R. West.. 7 



Detect ion of hydrogen peroxid in milk, \' [/..'. 7 



Determination of water in foods, F. < >. Benedict and ( lharlotte R. Manning. . . 7 



Determination of water in molasses. I :. Testoni s 



Commercial analysis of cane molasses. [, Optical methods, II. E.Sawyer 9 



Methods of fat determination in milk, F. Friis, E. Holm, and A. \". Krarup.. 9 



Sichler's "sin-acid " butyrometrj , G. ( lornalba 9 



Detection of added water in milk, l't/. 9 



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