82 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



undertake to flud a customer for a producer who wishes to begin selling milk, 

 or will find a producer for any middleman who wishes to go into the business. 



In the District of Columbia about 76,000 qts. are consumed per Any, which is 

 obtained from 1,091 farms lying in the neighboring counties of Maryland and 

 Virginia. About one-third of the milk is brought in by wagons. Most of the 

 shipments by steam or electric road are in 40-qt. cans. The freight rates on the 

 steam road are from 2 to 3 cts. per gallon, according to distance, and on the 

 electric road from ^ to 1* cts. per gallon. Statistics show a constantly decreas- 

 ing number of producers. Conditions pertaining to production are improving 

 from a sanitary point of view. 



Brief instructions for farm butter makers, F. A. Clowes (Hawaii Sta. 

 Press Bui. 31, pi). 10, figs. //). — A bulletin of practical information for making 

 butter on the farm under Hawaiian conditions. 



How to make Slipcote cheese {Dairy, 23 {1911), No. 274, P- 284). — ^A descrip- 

 tion of the method of making this old-fashioned soft cheese common in Rutland- 

 shire and the surrounding country. 



The cheese of Saint-Marcellin, C. Groud {Indus. Lait. [Parish, 36 {1911), 

 No. 41, pp. 617, 678). — A note on the characteristics of this small white cheese 

 made in the region of the French Alps. It was originally made of goat's milk, 

 but now is generally mixed with cow's milk and the details of manufacture vary 

 considerably. 



The financial aspect of cheese making {Agr. Gaz. N. 8. Wales, 22 {1911), 

 No. 9, pp. 771-773). — This financial statement contains details of the cost of 

 making cheese as follows: Cost of milk per pound of cheese, at a factory using 

 1,000 gal. of milk per day, 5.051d. ; cost of materials, manufacture, sale, etc., 

 0.944d. The cost of making it at the Hawkesburg Agricultural College was for 

 milk 4.292d. and for materials, manufacture, sale, etc. 1.705d. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Special pathology and therapy of the domestic animals, F. Hutyka and 



J. Marek (Spezielle Pathologie wid Therapie der Haiistiere. Jena, 1010, 3. 

 ed., rev. and enl., vols. 1, pp. XVI+1132, pis. 10, figs. 198; 2, pp. XIV+1074, pis. 

 5, figs. 163).— In this, the third edition of the work (E. S. R., 21, p. 77), the 

 changes of importance made are the addition of discussions of Malta fever, 

 three-days sickness, leukemia in fowls, oesophagostomiasis and dochmiasis in 

 bovines, enzootic cretinism in animals, serum disease, and necro-bacillosis, and 

 the rewriting of the chapters on hemorrhagic septicemia in sheep, coccidial 

 dysentery in animals, avian pox and avian diphtheria, enzootic equine par- 

 aplegia, scorbutis, paralysis of the bladder, protozoan diseases, and psychoses. 

 The newer findings in the field of chemotherapy are also included. 



Encyclopedia of microscopical technique, edited by P. Ehrlich et at,. 

 {Enzyldopddie der llikroskopiseheii Technik. Berlin and Vienna, 1910, vols. 1, 

 pp. IV +800, figs. 56; 2, pp. 680, figs. 111).— This publication, which is in 2 

 volumes, deals with microscopical technique as applied to the medical and 

 natural sciences. 



Dark ground illumination and ultramicroscopy in biology and medicine, 

 N. (jAIDukov {Dimkelfeldbeleuchtung und Vltramikroskopie in der Biologie iind 

 in der Medizin. Jena, 1910, pp. VI-\-83, pis. 5, figs. i3).— This book considers the 

 principles and nomenclature of ultramicroscopy and the various apparatus used 

 for this purpose. In addition it treats of the following subjects : Structure of 

 the colloids ; ultramicroscopical examination of sera and of solutions of proteins 

 and carbohydrates; examination of the blood, animal cells, spermatozoa, and 



