EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITOKIAl- DEPARTMENTS. 



t'heiuistry, Dairy Fiirniinji, and Dairying — The Editor and H. W. Lawson. 

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



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Schulte.' 



Entomology and Veterinary Science — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 

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

 With the cf>operation of the scientific divisions of the Department ami the Ahstract 



Committee of the Association of Othcial Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. 4. 



I'age. 



Editorial notes: Experiment stations exhil^its at the I'aris Exposition 301 



Recent work in agricultural science 306 



Notes - 400 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The direct determination of available i)hosphoric acid, F. P. Yeitch 306 



Note upon the determination of nitrogen in fertilizers containing nitrates, 



F. P. Veitch 306 



The gasometric measurement of nitrites in the i)resence of nitrates or other 



soluble salts, J. Gailhat 306 



The distillation of ammonia in the determination of nitrogen, F. G. Benedict 307 



Lime and sulphuric acid by the photometric method, J. I. D. Hinds 307 



The estimation of fat in sweetened condensed milk by the Babcock test, 



E. H. Farrington 307 



BOTANY. 



An annotated catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Oklahoma, E. E. 



Bogue 312 



Notes on plants of 1899, F. L. Harvey 312 



Root systems of farm crops, A. M. Soule 312 



The migration of food material in leaves, G. M. Tucker and B. Tollens 309 



A contril)ution to the knowledge of arginin, U. Suzuki 310 



Synthesis of albuminoids, AV. Palladin 310 



A contribution to the study of nitrogen assimilation by legumes, Lutoslawski. 311 

 Further observations on the nature and functions of the nodules of legumi- 

 nous plants, Maria Dawson 311 



An experiment with inoculating soy beans, C. B. Lane 312 



' Absent on leave. 



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