EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EJHTORIAL UEPARTMENTH. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and H. \V. Lawson. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and Agricultural 



Engineering — W. H. Beai^. 

 Botany and Diseases of Plants — Walter H. Evans, Ph. D. 

 Foods and Animal Production — C F. Langwortiiy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops — J. L Sciiulte.' 



Entomology and Veterinary Science- — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. I). 

 Horticulture — C. B. Sjiith and V. A. Clark. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Department and the Aljstract 



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. i. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The promotion of agriculture in Russia 1 



Agricultural experiment stations for Hawaii and Portf) Rico 2 



Notes on horse feeding, E. I^avalard 4 



Recent work in agricultural science 18 



Notes 99 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



The volumetric determination of potash, R. H. Adie and T. B. Wood 18 



A new reagent for detecting and estimating nitrites in water, H. Erdmann. . . 18 

 Methods for the detection of "process" or "renovated" butter, W. H. Hess 



and R. E. Doolittle 18 



A comparison of reagents for milk proteids with some notes on the Kjeldahl 



method for nitrogen determination, A. Vivian 19 



Tests for the strength of solutions of formaldehyde, H. A. Huston 21 



Reducing power of taka-diastase, H. A. Huston and A. H. Bryan 22 



BOTANY. 



American grasses — III, F. Ijamson-Scribner 24 



Notes on useful plants of Mexico, J. N. Rose 24 



Studies of Mexican and Central American plants — No. 2, J. N. Rose 24 



1 Absent on leave. 



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