EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



I'Mitor: K. W. ALLEN, Pii. D., A>isidaid DIrcrlur. 



EDITOKIAI- DEPAKTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and H. W. Lawsox. 

 Meteorology, Fertilizers and Soils (including methods of analysis), and Agricultin-al 



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

 Foods and Animal Production — C. F. Lan(;worthy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops — J. L Schulte. 



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

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

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



Committee of the Association of OtHcial Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. 6. 



Editorial notes: Page: 



Some recent bibliographic helps 501 



Protection of crops from hail 502 



Convention of Association of Otficial Agricultural Chemists, 1900, D. W. May. 503 



Recent work in agricultural science 510 



Notes 600 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Comparative methods of determining nitrogen in nitrates, L. von Wissell 510 



The determination of perchlorates in potassium and sodium nitrates, N. Blatt- 



ner and J. Brasseur 510 



^Method of determining chlorid, chlorate, and perchlorate in the presence of 



each other, N. Blattner and J. Brasseur 510 



Experiments in the determination of cell-wall material, hemicelluloses, and 



cellulose in j)lants, A. Kleiber 511 



The relation of the reducing power of normal urines to the amount of certain 



nitrogen compounds pre.sent, J. H. Long 512 



The nucleic acid of the embryo of wheat and its protein compounds, T. B. 



Osborne and G. F. Campbell 512 



The proteids of the egg yolk, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell 513 



The protein constituents of egg white, T. B. Osborne and G. F. Campbell 514 



On the chemical properties of the fat in Norwegian creamery butter, F. H. 



Werenskiold 515 



Nut oils, L. H. Merrill 516 



Limestones, petroleum, etc., A. M. Peter and H. E. Curtis 516 



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