EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: I",. AV. ALLEX, Pii. I)., A.'<si'<l(ud Dircdur. 



EDITOKIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



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

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



Engineering — W. H. Beal. 

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

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

 Field Crops — J. I. Sciiulte. 



Entomology and Veterinary Scienc(> — E. V. Wilcox, Ph. D. 

 Horticulture — C. B. Smith. 

 With the cooperation of the scientific divisions of the Dei)artment and the Abstract 



Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. lo. 



Page. 

 Editorial notes: Experiment-station farms, and the movement for their estab- 

 lishment in Germany 901 



Recent work in agricultural science 905 



Notes 998 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Report of the chemist, G. W. Shaw 906, 907 



Chemical division, H. .J. Wheeler 907 



On uniformity in soil analyses, A. D. Hall 905 



The detection of lead in potable water, Bellocq 906 



Some physical and chemical i)roperties of salad oils, G. E. Colby 906 



BOTANY. 



Agrostological notes, F. Lamson-Scribner and E. D. Merrill 911 



Inventory of foreign seeds and plants, J. ( i. Smith 911 



The university botanic garden, J. B. Davy 912 



Notes on jylants received for identitication, J. B. Davy 912 



Report on the investigations at the climatological station of Juvisy during 



1899, C. Flannnarion 909 



Physiological experiments on the germination and growth of plants in rarefied 



air, F. Schaible 909 



Notes on the germination and seedlings of certain native plants, S. Coulter... 910 



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