EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



IPARTM ENT! 



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



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



Field Crops — .1. I. Schulte. 



Horticulture and Forestry — C. B. Smith. 



Zootechny and Human Nutrition — ('. F. Langwobthy, Ph. D. 



Agrotechny, Dairy Farm ing , and Dairying — II. \V. Lawson. 



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



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



Rural Engineering — R. P. Teele. 



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



Agricultural Education— D. .1. Crosby. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII, NO. n. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Hon. II. (\ Adams, deceased 1029 



The agricultural appropriation act, 1906-7 1030 



Inspection duties of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 1033 



Recent work in agricultural science 1036 



Notes 11 23 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



AGRICULTURAL chemistry. 



Investigation of products important in agriculture, C, Bohmer 1036 



Equilibrium between bases present with phosphoric acid, A. Quartaroli 1036 



Reactions of the three phosphoric acids, ('. Arnold and G. Werner 1037 



Compounds of pvrophosphoric acid, J. Cavalier. 1037 



Determination of citric-acid Boluble phosphoric acid in slag, II. Presenius 1037 



Determination of phosphoric acid as phosphomolybdic annydrid, ( '<. Berju 1037 



Determination of amnion iacal nitrogen, Seheele and von Sox h let 1037 



Simple met ho< 1 for determination of nitric acid in nitrates, J. T. Born water. . 1037 



Need of uniform methods of titration in determination of nitrogen, B. Schulze. . 1037 



I determination of potash by means of perchloric acid 1037 



Detection and determination of chlorate in sod mm nitrate, L Grimbert 1037 



Gravimetric determination of calcium, ( ). Brunck L037 



Determination of lime in soils, D. J. I Iissink 1038 



The analysis of foods, C. Mar-cot 1038 



Immersion refractometer in food analysis, J. Hanusand K. Chocensk^ 1038 



Maple sirup and maple sugar investigations, C. 1 1. Jones 1038 



The examination of noney, II. Matthesand 1\ Mueller 1039 



Concerning starch, glycogen, and cellulose, Z. II. Skraup 1039 



Chemistry of the albumens, S. B. Schryver 1039 



Crude gluten, F. A. Norton 1030 



Determining the sulphurous acid in meat, ( '. Mentzei 1040 



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