EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. !».. Assistant Director. 



EDITOR] \l. DEPARTMENTS. 



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



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



Field Crops— .1. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry- C. B. Smith. 



Zootechnyand 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 Medicint — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. I>. 



Rural Engineering — K. P. Teele. 



Rural Economics— H. C. Taylor, Ph. I>. 



Agricultural Education— D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. 6. 



Editorial notes: 



Secondary agricultural instruction in California 52] 



An Institute of Animal Nutrition 523 



Recent work in agricultural science 525 



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SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Formation of ammonia from the elements, F. Haber and G. van Oordl 525 



The direct synthesis of ammonia, E. P. Perman 525 



Formation of ammonia from the elements, F. Haber and G. van Oordt 526 



Action of nitrogen on water vapor at high temperatures. < >. F. Tower 526 



The action of nitrogen on water vapor, < >. F. Tower 526 



Nitric acid Erora air, II. R. Carveth and C. L. Rand 526 



Oxidation of nitrogen of air by electrical discharges, F. von Lepel.. 526 



Oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen in high tension arc, A. Stavenhagen 527 



Examination of cyanamid and applications of the method. R. Perotti 527 



Expulsion of ammonium salts after precipitation in their presence, P. Jannasch. 527 



The true atomic weighl of nitrogen, ( r. I>. Hinrichs ! 527 



A revision of the atomic weight of potassium, E. II. Archibald 527 



Determination of assimilable phosphoric acid in soils, A. s. Kudashev 527 



Action of phosphates on platinum in presence of carbon, W. P. Headden ">-< 



The determination of aluminum in asn of plants, II. Pellet and < '. Fribourg.. 62< 



A method tor the determination of carbonates in soils, A. Amos 528 



Contribution to chemical methods of water examination, A. Bomer 528 



Some points about water analysis, C. I>. Howard 



Modification of Winkler's method of determining oxygen in water, II. Noll-. 528 



Kepon of international committee for analysis off fertilizers, etc., T. B. W 1. 528 



Analysis of feeding stuffs and relation to feeding experiments, V. Storch 528 



Methods of estimating fat, G. Rosenfeld 529 



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