EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD 



Editor: E. W. A I.LEW Ph. D., Assistant Director. 



KDIIOKIAI. DEPARTMENTS. 



Meteorology, Soils, and Fertilizers — W. 11. Beal. 



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



Field < Irops— J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture ami Forestry— C. B. Smith. 



Zootechny and Human Nutrition— C. F. Langworthy, Ph. I). 



Agrotechny, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — H. W. Lawson. 



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



Economic Zoology, Entomology, and Veterinary Medicine — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. 



Rural Engineering— S. M. W ward. 



Rural Economics— H. C. Taylor, Ph. D. 

 Agricultural Education— I >. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. 2. 



p:«litorial notes: Pa ? e - 



A review of irrigation 105 



Meeting i >i Agricultural Implement Manufacturers 109 



Recenl work in agricultural science Ill 



Notes '. 2i h ) 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY- 



Formation of oceanic salt deposits, .1. II. van't Hoff Ill 



Detei in inat ion of free phosphoric acid in superphosphates, < ierhardt Ill 



Determining free phosphoric acid in superphosphates, R. Zockler 112 



Tallies for reckoning composition ofammoniated superphosphates, Gerhardt. Ir2 



Analysis of compounds containing nitrogen, C. Flamand and B. Prager 112 



< I ravi metric determination of nitric acid, A. Gutbier 112 



Qualitative determination of nitric acid, < >. Frerichs 112 



French-' method of determining nitric acid in water, Etz 112 



New method for determining ammonia, A. Trillat ami Turchet 112 



Nitrogen iodid reaction in determining ammonia, A. Trillat and Turchet 113 



New method of determining ammonia, A. Trillat and Turchet 11.'! 



On the physico-chemical analysis of cultivated sods. IE Lagatu 113 



Determination of sulphur ami phosphoric acid in foods, etc.. \Y. L. Dubois... 113 



Analysis of wheat and Hour for commercial purposes, IE Snyder 113 



The separation of proteids, II. ( '. I Iaslam 113 



Bimple proteids and their cleavage by ferments, A. Kosseland Dakin 114 



Investigations on the vegetable proteids, T. B. Osborne 114 



Detection of cotton-seed oil in lard. L. M. Tolman 114 



Investigations on the Gottlieb method, M. Siegfeld ami \V. Rosenbaum 114 



Possible saponification of fat in the < rottlieb-Rose method, A. Burr 114 



Identification of coloring matter in fat, H. Sprinkmeyer and II. Wagner 114 



A new automatic pipette, < ireiner and Friedrichs 114 



Standard methods of sampling: A review with some suggestions, M. L. I iriffin. 114 



The sampling of fertilizers, L. Grandeau 115 



