EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



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



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

 ^Meteorology, Fertilizers 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 Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. 9. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



Cheese curing in the light of the enzym theory 801 



The agricultural appropriation act 803 



Russian soil investigations 807 



Recent work in agricultural science 819 



Notes 899 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The qualitative detection of mineral phosphates in Thomas slag, N. von 



Lorenz 819 



Estimation of alkali carbonates in the presence of bicarbonates, F. K. Cam- 

 eron 819 



Methods of determining proteid nitrogen in vegetable materials, G. S. Fraps 



and J. A. Bizzell 819 



A new method for the determination of nitric nitrogen, J. F. Pool 820 



Estimation of nicotin, amount of nicotin in New South Wales tobaccos, 



G. Marker 820 



The adulteration and analysis of the arsenical insecticides, J. K. Haywood. . . 820 



Composition and analysis of London purple, J. K. Haywood 821 



Paris green and London purple in Montana, F. AV. Traphagen 822 



Detection of coal-tar dyes in fruit products, A. L. Winton 821 



The influence of carbon bisulphid and common salt on the losses of nutrients 

 and the character of the fermentation of ensiled fodders, I. Kalugin and 



S. Parashchuck - 822 



