EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIA I. DEPARTM i:\ I-. 



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



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



Field Crops— J. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry -C. B. Smith. 



Zootechnyand Human Nutrition— C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



Agrotechny, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — II. \Y. Lawson. 



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



Economic Zoology, Entomology, ami Veterinary Mediein* — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. I ». 



Rural Engineering— R. P. Teele. 



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



Agricultural Education — 1>. .1. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. 9. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Elementary training for the productive industries 825 



Progress in making the nitrogen of the air available to agriculture 827 



Recent work in agricultural science y ; ><» 



Notes 925 



SUBJECT LIST ok ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL chemistry. 



Analysis and control of agricultural products, L. Q-randeau 830 



Methods of analysis df fertilizers in different countries, L. Sicard 830 



Importance of uniform international methods of analysis, H. Nissenson 830 

 New method for determination of atmospheric carbon dioxid. H. T. Brown 



andF. Escbmbe.. .. . .. 830 



Determination of carbon monoxid in the air, Albert-Levy and A. Pecoul s ::i 



Determination of sulphuric acid in drinking water. F. Raschig 831 



Field assay of water, M. O. Leigh ton ; 831 



Theory of formation of potash deposits from sea water. E. Janecke. 831 



Methods used in soil investigations. ( ). Sehreiner and (i. EL Failyer s ".l 



Determination of nitric acid in soils. Buhlert and Fickendey 832 



Determination of aluminum. H. Weber 832 



Examination of foods, condiments, and commercial products, M. Mansfeld S ".'J 

 Q-lutaminic acid yielded by vegetable proteins. T. B. Osborne and R. D. 



Gilbert . ... 832 



Concerning the detection of boric a -id, (t. Fendler 833 



Curcuma paper for boric acid reaction, L. Wolf rum and J. Pinnow s; ! ; ! 



Estimation of sulphurous acid in certain foods. T. Schumacher and E. Feder 838 



Detection of talc and coloring matter in grits and rice, E. von Raumer - s i! 



Occurrence of cholesterin and lei it bin in milk, M. Siegt'eld s -">- 

 Accuracy of Wollnv refractomcter, Gottlieb method, etc., H. Schrott- 



Fiechtl ... ... 833 



New nonacid method for rapid determination of fat in milk. N. (-ierl er . . . B33 



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