n CONTENTS. 



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Contribution to our knowledge of foreign honeys, Fiehe and Stegmiiller 113 



Detecting adulteration of cider vinegar with distilled vinegar, Crawford 113 



Detection of alkaloids in beverages, Bodnar 114 



Tests of tannin substances in Malabar tea, Bosscha and Maurenbrecher 114 



Proposals for the section on wine _. ._ 114 



Recommendations for the re\ision of the section on spiritous liquors 114 



Proposals for the section on milk products of the Swiss food book 114 



Nephelometric determination of casein, globuUn, and albumin in milk, Kober. 114 



A new rapid method for the estimation of casein in milk, Walker 114 



The analysis of unsweetened evaporated milk, Utt 115 



Laboratory and field assay of arsenical dipping fluids, Chapin 115 



Deternunation and detection of methyl alcohol, von Fellenberg 115 



Research studies on the curing of leaf tobacco. Garner, Bacon, and Foubert... 115 



The experimental error in sampUng sugar cane. Leather 117 



The clarification of Louisiana cane juices, Cross 117 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



Meteorological observations, Stevens 117 



Siu^ace water supply of the Missouri River Basin, 1911, Lamb et al 117 



Surface water supply of the Colorado River Basin, 1911, FoUansbee et al 118 



Surface water of South Atlantic coast and GuH Basins, Hall and Pierce 118 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS . 



Treatise on soils for farmers and foresters, Mitscherlich 118 



Moor cultivation in Austria, Bersch 118 



The fertility map of the Delta, KeeUng 119 



Soils, Vipond 119 



Laterite, its consideration in the light of colloid chemistry, Luz 119 



The determination of the absorptive power of the soil, Oryng 119 



Influence of irrigation and crop production on nitrification, McBeth and Smith. 119 



Formation and decomposition of humus. Lohnis and Green 120 



Effect of copper, zinc, iron, and lead salts on soils, Lipman and Burgess 120 



The decomposition of siUcates by soil bacteria and yeasts, II, BassaUk 121 



Nitrogen assimilation in the presence of nitrates, Pnngsheim 121 



, Composition of cells of Azotohacter chroococcum, Omeliansky and Sieber 121 



The behavior of soils steriUzed by heat, Vogel 121 



Bacteriological studies of field soils. — III, Effect of barnyard manures. Brown. . 121 



Farm manures, Brown 122 



Green manuring and soil fertility, Brown 122 



[Cave deposits, manures, limes, and limestones], Vipond 122 



Report of the superintendent of the guano islands, Zeederberg 122 



Peat, Da^is 122 



Results of drilling manm-es in Hungary, Kerpely 123 



Experimental results by the experiment station of Stockholm, Soderbaum. . . . 123 



Do fertihzer salts have an influence in forming soil crusts? Hessler 123 



Experiments on availabiUty of nitrogenous fertilizers, Lipman, Blair, et al 124 



Phosphatic fertiUzers, Gregoke 125 



Action of ammonium citrate on calcium phosphates, Warynski and Langel. . . 125 



Superphosphate vinasse, a new fertihzer, Stoltzenberg 125 



Potash salts: Summary for 1912, Phalen 125 



Lime, Stone 125 



Gypsum, Stone ' 125 



Agricultmal value of carbonate of lime for causticizing plant, Hendrick 125 



Liming Iowa soils, Brown 125 



The action of sulphur on the bacterial activities of the soil, Vogel 125 



So-called catalytic action of manganese and boron on the sugar beet, Pellet 126 



The fertihzer inspection for 1913, Curry, Smith, et al 126 



Analyses and valuations of fertiUzers and ground bone, Cathcart et al 126 



Fertihzer registrations, Cathcart i 126 



[Fertihzer inspection in North Carolina, 1912 to 1913], Kilgore et al 126 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Agricultural bacteriology, Hutchinson 126 



On the fungi of the soil, II, Dale 127 



