CONTENTS. V 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Page. 



Report of the entomologist, Fullaway 155 



A study of Kentucky localities in which pellagra is prevalent, Garman 156 



The pear thrips, Parrott 156 



A new fruit tree enemy in New York, Hall 157 



The grape leaf-hopper and its control, Hartzell 157 



Fighting leaf-hoppers in the vineyard. Hall 158 



Burn the chinch bug in winter quarters, Headlee 158 



The San Jose scale in Missouri, Haseman 158 



The imi)orted cabbage webworm {Bellula undalis), Chittenden and Marsh .... 159 



A little-known cutworm (Porosagrotis vetusta), Chittenden 159 



The fruit tree leaf-roller {Archips argyrospila), Herrick 160 



The alfalfa gall midge (Asphnndylia miki), Webster 161 



Arsenite of zinc and lead chromate against Colorado potato beetle, Johnston. . . 161 



The so-called "curlew bug " (SphenophoriLS callosiis), Webster 162 



Progress and prospects of tick eradication, Curtice 1C;{ 



The use of arsenical dips in tick eradication, Ransom and Graybill 163 



A new leakage gage, Woodworth 163 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTKITION. 



Economic results of cold storage, Wilson 164 



An inquiry into the cost of living in Australia, 1910-11 , Knibbs 165 



[Food analyses and other pure food and drug topics], Ladd and Johnson 165 



Studies on wheat flour, I, Jessen-Hanscn 166 



The proteins of rice, Kajiura 166 



The toxicity of caffein on different species of animals, Salant and Rieger 166 



Coca cola (sirup), McCill » 167 



State and municipal meat inspection and municipal slaughterhouses, Melvin.. 167 



Transformations in dog, after giving large quantity of meat, Williams et al 167 



Investigations on the digestion of milk — gastric digesticm of casein, Gaucher... 168 



Calcium absorption in the body from pasteurized and sterilized milk, Zimmer. 168 



Allantoin output of man as influenced by water ingestioii, Fairhall and Hawk. 168 



The utilization of yeast in the human organism, Yoltz and Baudrexel 168 



Place of retention or reconjugation of the amino acids in the body, Woelfel 169 



The physiology of phosphorus during growth, Lipschtitz 169 



Biological significance of casein phosphorus for growing organism, Lipschiitz. . 169 



Microscopic studies on living smooth muscle, Meigs 169 



The chemical constituents of the ash of smooth muscle, Ryan and Meigs 169 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Chemical investigations on maize silage, Feruglio and Mayer 170' 



Ensilage of fodder, roots, and beet pulp, Malpeaux and Lefort 170 



The actual state of our knowledge of silage, Feruglio 170 



On the composition of hay damaged by rain, Paturel 1 70 



Chemical analyses of licensed commercial feeding stuffs, 1911, Woll 170 



Licensed commercial feeding stuffs, 1912, Woll 170 



Results of the examination of stock feeds, Purcell 171 



Kansas feeding stuffs law, Webster 171 



The world's greatest meat market 171 



Miscellaneous information concerning the live-stock industry, Roberts 171 



The live-stock industry of Honduras, Thompson and Downing 171 



Live-stock breeding in Uruguay, Guth 171 



Circuit breeding 171 



Principles of breeding and the origin of domesticated breeds, Ewart 172 



The ancestry of domesticated cattle, Morse 172 



[Cattle in Jamaica], Cousins et al 172 



Brazilian Caracu cattle, Athanassof 172 



Cattle breeding in Latium, Stazi 172 



Experimental studies on cattle and pigs, Romolotti 172 



Studies of the nutrition of the pig, McCollum and Steenbock 172 



The production of "hothouse " lambs, Savage and Tailby, jr 173 



Evolution of the standard bred, Marshall 173 



Great sires of a hundred years, Gilbey 173 



The army remount problem, Rommel 173 



The restricted climatic environment of horses. Woodruff 174 



