EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 Meteorology, Fertihzer.s and Soils (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. Langworthy, Ph. D. 

 Field Crops — J. I. 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 OfBcial Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. 7. 



Page. 

 Editorial note: The scope and management of the veterinary work of the 



experiment stations 601 



New building for the College of Agriculture at the University of Illinois 604 



Recent work in agricultural science 609 



Notes 699 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



chemistry. 



Phosphoric acid in the presence of saturated solutions of calcium bicarbonate, 



T. Schloesing 609 



A method for the rapid gravimetric estimation of lime, W. H. Hess 609 



The weight unit as the basis for calculating results of physical analysis of soils, 



A. Mitscherlich 610 



Determination of tannin and of gallic acid, F. Jean 610 



Trials of some methods for cellulose determination, C. Beck 610 



Puritication of phloroglucinol, G. S. Fraps 61 1 



botany. 



Fodder and forage plants exclusive of the grasses, J. G. Smith 615 



Studies on American grasses. A revision of the North American species of 



Bromus occurring north of Mexico, C. L. Shear 615 



Hybrid conference report 612 



Changes resulting from etiolation, G. Andre 613 



Some injurious effects produced by fumigation with hydrocyanic-acid gas, 



W. R.Beattie 613 



Importance of bacteria to the development of plants, J. Stoklasa 614 



Recent investigations on soil inoculation, J. Stoklasa 614 



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