VT CONTENTS. [Vol. 36 



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Variations in the composition of skim milk , Perkins 374 



The significance of the act of milking, Crowther 375 



Iowa educational market milk contest, Hammer and Hauser 375 



Safeguarding nature's most valuable food — milk, North, 375 



The cost of milk production, Mackintosh 376 



Some aspects of the dairying industry of England and Wales, Gavin 376 



The marketing of Wisconsin butter, Hibbard and Hobson 376 



Experiments on the preparation of homemade rennet, Todd and Cornish 378 



The improved system of selling cheese, Sammis 378 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Outline of lectures in special pathology, Burnett 378 



Proceedings under the diseases of animals acts 1911-1914 378 



Report for 1915 of principal of Royal Veterinary College, McFadyean 378 



The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America 378 



The National Formulary. 378 



Magnesium hypochlorite in surgery, Dubard 379 



A comparison of the Hygienic Laboratory and Rideal- Walker tests, Walker 379 



A method of anaerobic plating permitting observation of growth, Jones 379 



Comparative study of colon bacilli isolated from horse, cow, and man, Murray. . 379 



Role of blood fluids in digestion of certain bacteria and corpuscles, Douglas. . . 379 



Permeability of gastro-intestinal wall to Sporothrix schenckii, Davis 379 



Laboratory infection by a bo\'ine strain of Bacillus enteritidis, Meyer 380 



The antibodies of spores. Chimera 380 



The precipitation reaction with silkworm caterpillar immune serum, Aoki. . . . 380 



The agglutinin reaction in the examination of silkworms, Aoki and Chigasaki. 380 



Biologic reactions of vegetable proteins. — VIII, Elsesser 380 



Experiments with the Abderhalden dialysis procedure,\)tto and Blumenthal . . 381 



The complement content of Eck-fistula dogs, Sherwood, Smith, and West 381 



A cutaneous reaction in canine distemper, Kolmer et al 381 



Anaphylactic skin reactions in relation to immunity, IV, Kolmer et al 382 



Changes in the blood count in dourine, Popesco 382 



Virulence of blood of animals with foot-and-mouth disease, Cosco and Aguzzi. . 382 



The K. H. reaction in glanders, Kranich and Kliem 382 



Johne's disease, M'Fadyean and Sheather 382 



Milk in relation to Mediterranean fever, Porcher and Godard 382 



Hereditary transmission of rabies, Konradi 383 



A modification of the Hygienic Laboratory method for tetanus toxin, Wilcox . . . 383 



A new culture medium for the tubercle bacillus, Williams and Burdick 383 



The combined and follow-up systems of tuberculin testing, Hart and Traum . . 383 



Studies in infectious abortion m cattle, Giltner et al 383 



Contagious broncho-pneumonia caused by Bacillus coli communis, Stanton 384 



The use of arrhenal for the treatment of Texas fever, Aghion 384 



Studies on hog cholera with reference to Spirochxta hyos, King and Drake 384 



Illinois hog cholera serum plant 384 



Enterohepatitis or blackhead in turkeys, Higgins 384 



Enterohepatitis or blackhead and raising turkeys, Higgins 384 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Proceedings of the Ohio Engineering Society, February 9, 10, 11, 1916 384 



Laws of Idaho relative to water and irrigation, Hindman 384 



Run-off and mean flow of some Texas streams, Taylor 384 



Warner Valley and White River Projects, Whistler and Lewis 385 



The saving of irrigation water in wheat growing, Howard 385 



[Road laws] 386 



Report of state engineer [of Arizona] to state highway commission, Cobb 386 



The financial side of road improvement, Coghlan 386 



Demonstration roads at A. and M. College of Texas, Morrison 386 



Earth roads, Morrison 386 



Gravel roads, Coghlan 386 



Highway bridges and culverts, Coghlan 386 



Convict labor for road work, Pennybacker, Fairbank and Draper 386 



Experimental studies of vacuum juice heaters, Kerr and Webre 387 



Tests of the power and steam consumption of sugar factories, Kerr et al 388 



Some experiments on pulling loads, with a discussion of the results, Brown 388 



