EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: E. W. ALLEN, Ph. I>., Assistant Director. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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



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



Field Crops — .1. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry— C. B. Smith. 



Zootechny and 1 1 uman Nutrition— C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Agroteehny, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — II. W. Lawson. 



Agricultural Chemistry— W. II. Beal, C. F. Langworthy, and 11. W. Lawson. 



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



Rural Engineering— K. P. Teele. 



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



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. 7. 



Editorial notes: ****• 



( Government aid to agriculture in India 625 



Development of agricultural experimentation and instruction in India ... »>l\ 



New horticultural building at the Massachusetts Agricultural College 630 



Recent work in agricultural science <> ; > ; ! 



Notes 717 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



Agricultural chemistry during the firsl half of the year L905, W. Zielstorff n:;."> 



Formation of oceanic salt deposits, J. II. van't Hon and W. C. Blasdale 633 



Comparative study of methods of analysis in different countries, L. Sicard <>'■>"> 



Determination of "black alkali in waters and soil extracts. \V. YY. Skinner 633 



Determination of strength of solutions used in nitrogen determination, I". Mach . 634 



Determination of organic nitrogen in sewage by Kjeldahl process, I ■'.. B. Phelps. ,; -"> I 



Determination of nitric and nitrons acids, J. Meisenheimer and F. Heim 634 



rhe determination of nitrous acid, F. Raschig ' ;; '>J 



Determination of nitric and nitrons acids, J. Meisenheimer and F. Heim 635 



German official method of estimating nitric acid in meat. K. Farnsteiner 635 



The quantitative estimation of nitric acid in meat. \Y. Stuber 635 



.Judging meal extracts. M. Siegfried and E. Singewald - ,i: >- > 



Proteins of the castor bean, T. B. Osborne, L. B. .Mendel, and I. F. Harris..: 636 



Studies of the nature of strawberry fat, .1. Aparin 635 



The behavior of lecithin to ferments, P. Mayer 635 



The curcuma reaction for boric acid, A. ( roske ,;: ' ,,; 



The qualitative detection of boric acid. ( >. Mezger 636 



Quantitative estimation of vanillin, ,1. Hanus 636 



Paints and paint products, E. F. Ladd and C. D. Holley 636 



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