EXPERIMENT STATION' RECORD. 



Editor: 1.. W. ALLEN, Ph. I>.. AsmtarU Director. 



EDITOR] \ l DEP VRTMENTS. 



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. 



Zootechny and Human Nutrition— C. F. Langworthy, Ph. D. 



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



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



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



Rural Engineering— R. P. Teele. 



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



Agricultural Education — D. J. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. 10. 



Page. 



Editorial notes: A conception of agricultural research 929 



Recent work in agricultural science 934 



Notes 1025 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS 



AGRICl I.TI K \I. CHEMISTRY. 



Determination of available plant food in soil, A. I >. Hall and A. Amos 934 



Determination of phosphoric acid, < r. Jorgensen 934 



Citrate solubility of phosphoric acid in fertilizers, J. K..15. Dixon 935 



Determination of phosphoric acid in Thomas slag, bone meal, etc., O. Bottcher. 936 



Analyt ical notes on the superphosphate industry, L. Schucht 936 



tJse of Herat -us elect lie crucible in analysis of phosphates, F. I taussding 936 



The industrial analysis of water, E. Bosch. 936 



Determination of nitrous acid in water analysis, < b Lunge 936 



Separation of solutes from solvents, F. K. Cameron and J. M. Bell 937 



Chemistry of theproteids, G. .Mann 937 



Guide for the examination and analysis of milk, A. Pannes 937 



Experiments with the "sin -acid " butyrometer, J. Adorjdn 937 



Rapid analysis of butter, II. \Y. Charlton 938 



Silver indexes for detection of cocoanut oil in butter, F. .lean 938 



Microscopy of vegetable foods and condiments, J. Moeller 938 



Quantitative estimation oi the lecithans, W. Koch and 1 1, s. Woods 938 



Identification of horse and colt flesh, M. Martin 938 



Sulphate and sulphur determinations, < >. Folin 938 



Bluestone and formalin, T. Macfarlane 938 



Interpretations of chemical analyses for farmers, II. tngle 939 



Agricultural chemistry during second halfoi 1905, W*. Zielstorff 939 



Thirteenth annual report ol committee on atomic weights, F. W.Clarke 939 



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