EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Editor: K. W. ALLEN, Ph. D., Assistant Biredor. 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS. 



Chemistry, Dairy Farming, and Dairying — The Editor and H.W. Lawj;on. 

 Meteorology, FertiUzers and Soils (inchiding 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. Lang 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 Official Agricultural Chemists. 



CONTENTS OF Vol. XII, No. ii. 



Editorial notes: Page. 



The Hawaii Experiment Station 1001 



Maxinie Cornu, botanist, horticulturist, and agriculturist 1002 



Recent woi k in agricailtural science 1004 



Notes 1099 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



A simple method for determining phosphoric acid by means of molybdic solu- 

 tion, .1. Hanamanii 1004 



The determination of potash by means of perchloric acid for connnen'ial pur- 

 poses, C. Montanari 1004 



A method for preparing normal, seminormal, decinormal, etc., sulphuric acid 



of exact strength, R. K. Meade 1005 



A verj^ delicate reaction for determining the presence of formaldehyde and of 



milk sugar in milk, E. Riegler 1005 



A note on the examination of butter and other fats, A. Reychler 1005 



Theine in tea, J. Kochs 1005 



The nature and properties of corn oil, H. T. Vulte and Harriet W. (iibson 1006 



A method for determining sesame oil in vegetable and animal oils, Tambon.. 1006 



BOTANY. 



studies on American grasses, F. Lr'.mson-Scribner and E. D. Merrill 1013 



Some ways of seed distribution, F. H. Hillman 1014 



Exchange seed list No. 5, W. A. Setchell ivnd J . B. Davy 1014 



