EXPERIMENT STATION' RECORD. 



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



EDITOR! \i. DEP \i;tmi:n i>. 



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



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



Field ( Irops— J. 1. Schulte. 



Horticulture and 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. I". Langworthy, and II. W. Lawson. 



Economic Zoology, Entomology, ami Veterinary Medicine— E. V. Wilcox, Ph. I). 



Rural Engineering S. M. Woodward. 



Rural Economics— Ri I*. Teele, M. A. 



Agricultural Education— D. .1. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. s. 



Editorial notes: ''"-"■ 



The Sixth Intel-national Livestock Exposition 117 



Educational influences of the exposition Jl s 



Agricultural colleges and experimenl stations at the exposition 120 



Convention of Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1905, II. W. 



Lawson 4--' '• 



Recenl work in agricultural science 135 



Notes ■"• I • ; 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



\oi;l« i I I ri: \ I CHEMISTRY. 



The practice of agricultural chemists, M. Passon h ; -~> 



Determination of phosphoric acid as pyrophosphate, K. K.. Jarvinen 135 



An alkali n it 'trie method of determining phosphoric acid, V. Boulez 135 



Further note- on Bimple methods of determining potash, F. Klinkerfues 135 



Determination of lime in high percentage marls, P. Sommer h' 1 - 1 



Separation of iron and aluminum in analysis of plant ashes, P. Kaschinsky .. 436 



Determination of loss on ignition in soil analysis, Ei. Mehring 436 



Difficulty of detecting small variations in nitrogen content of soils, R. Thiele. 436 



Determination of nitric acid in presence of organic substances, B, Pfyl i :;,i 



Examination of potable waters and interpretation of results, F. I wiener! 136 



Estimation of cellulose and Ljgnin in feeding stuffs and foods, J. Konig 436 



The cleavage products of starch, A. Rossing 



Analysis of wheat flour for commercial purposes. II. Snyder 437 



Estimation of moisture in bread, A. Pagniello 437 



Absolute desiccation of vegetable materials, L. Maquenne ,;; ' 



The harmfulness of artificial colors in foods, < r. Schacherl 137 



simple method for determining boric acid quantitatively, O. von Spindler 



On fat determination in milk. T. S. Thomsen 43< 



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