CONTENTS. Vn 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



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Digestion experiments with Texas feeding stuffs, Fraps 862 



Composition of feeds and a method of calculating rations, Athanassof 863 



Analyses of forage crops 863 



Composition and nutritive value of some feed plants, Ulmansky 863 



Commercial feeding stuffs, 1913. — Feed law, Youngblood 863 



Feeding stuffs 864 



Cotton -seed products and their competitors in northern Europe, Thompson 864 



Fish feed meal, Kling 864 



Bengal beans, a new fodder, Shrewsbury 864 



The phosphoric substance of prairie grass, Dusserre 864 



Mineral requirements of farm animals 864 



Value of fat from various sources 864 



Some mechanical factors in digestion, Sisson 865 



Controlled natural selection and value marking, Mottram 865 



Coat color in pointer dogs. Little 865 



Nondisjunction of the sex chromosomes of Drosophila, Bridges 865 



Animal industry in the Kongo, Leplae 865 



Cattle feeding conditions in the corn belt, Mumford and Hall 865 



Feeding baby beef, Snyder 866 



Skin temperature and fattening capacity in oxen, Wood and Hill 866 



The Simmental breed of cattle, Plumb 867 



Proportions of shelled corn and alfalfa hay for fattening lambs, Coffey 867 



Effects of castration on horn gi-owth in sheep, Marshall and Hammond 867 



The wool conference in Washington 868 



Substitutes for corn in rations for fattening swine, Eastwood 868 



Ground wheat versus whole wheat for fattening pigs. Bliss and Lee 869 



Ovariotomy in sows. III, MacKenzie, Marshall, and Hammond 870 



The Sapphire hog, McLean 870 



Feeding draft foals 870 



Cost of keeping work horses, Foard 870 



The inheritance of coat colors in horses, Anderson 870 



The origin of domestic fowl, Daveiiport 871 



Egg-laying competitions, 1913-14, Laurie 871 



DAIRY FARMING DAIRYING. 



Comparison of one- and two-day test 871 



Comparison of one- and two-day tests of the Guernsey Cattle Club, Thorndike. 871 



Comparative value of one- and two-day tests as Adewed by experiment station. 872 



Nature and causes of variation in richness in butter fat of same cow, Thorndike . . 872 



Yield and composition of milk of Montgomery herd at Pusa, Leather and Dobbs. 873 



Fat content of milk and rate of coagulation with rennet, Kreidl and Lenk 873 



Testing for fat in milk by the Babcock test 873 



Bacteriological examination of market milk, Heinemann 873 



Studies in bacterial metabolism, Kendall, Day, and Walker 873 



Preparation of buttermilk which can be preserved for a long time, Suwelack. . 874 



The composition of cheese made from whole milk, Brownlee 874 



Pasteurized milk cheese 874 



Three creamery methods for making buttermilk cheese, Sammis 874 



Ice cream investigations 874 



Some improved dairy tests and methods, Benkendorf et al 875 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Clinical bacteriology and vaccine therapy for veterinary surgeons, Scott 875 



Acid-fast bacilli occuring in the feces of some vertebrates, Bertani 875 



Some structural transformations of the blood cells of vertebrates. Kite 876 



Effect of poisons on the germ cells of the male 876 



Body teniperature before, during, and after parturition, Limmer 876 



Significance and origin of the so-called defensive ferments, Abderhalden 876 



Investigations in regard to the specificity of defensive ferments, Hirsch 876 



Experimental investigation about autoserotherapy, Eisner 876 



Serodiagnosis according to Abderhalden, Allmann 877 



Adsorption phenomena in the Abderhalden dialysis method. Plant 877 



About the specificity of Abderhalden 's dialysis method, Singer 877 



