IV CONTENTS. 



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On the browning of grape cuttings, P. Viala and L. Eavaz 139 



Experiments for tlie prevention of plum leaf spot and cherry leaf spot and 



fruit rot, S. A. Beach 139 



Spraying orchards and A-ineyards, J. C. Whitten 140 



Directions ffir the use of fungicides and insecticides for the season of 1896, 



S.T.Maymird 140 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Mexican cotton boll weevil, L. O. Howard 142 



The grass and grain .ioint-worm liies and their allies, L. O. Howard 148 



The San Jos6 scale, M. H. Beckwith 147 



The San Jose scale in Missouri, J. M. Stedman 148 



The pear psylla and the New York plum scale, M. V. Slingerland 142 



Wireworms and the bud moth, M. V. Slingerland 143 



Insects injurious in 1895, O. Lugger 144 



Some injurious insects, R. A. Cooley 146 



Insect enemies of truck and garden crops, A. L. Quaiutance 147 



Methods of destroying chinch bugs, G. E. Morrow 147 



Spray calendar, E. G. Lodeman 149 



Composition of Paris green, C. A. Goessmann 148 



Revision of the Nematimc of North America, C. L. Marlatt 148 



FOODS— ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



The mineral constituents of muscular tissue, J. Katz 149 



Relations between muscular work and the metabolism of the proteid materials 



of the body, A. Chauveau 149 



Investigation on the influence of muscular exertion on the metabolism of pro- 

 tein, O. Krummacher 149 



The influence of temperature on the amount of carbon dioxid and water vapor 



jjroduced by man when performing severe muscular labor, H. Wolpert 149 



The excretion of carbon dioxid and water vapor by individuals of various 



trades during rest and work, H. Wolpert 150 



Does muscular energy depend directly upon the energy of the protein of the 



food? A. Chauveau and C. Contejean 150 



Respiration and muscular energy, A. Chauveau 151 



Dietary study at Lyman School 151 



Leaves as a food for farm animals, F. H. Werenskiold 151 



Analyses of silage from stack silos, P. Hellstrom 151 



Feeding experiments with Rehnstrom's "horse bread," J. V, Nordendahl 152 



Report of the State Chemical-Control Station of Norway for 1895, F. H. 



Werenskiold 152 



Report of agricultural chemical work for the Royal Agricultural Society (Nor- 

 way) in 1895, V. Stein 153 



Report of Oerebro Chemical Station and Seed-Control Station for 1894, J. 



Widen 153 



Dangers from rancid cotton cake, D. Crispo 154 



Calf-feeding experiments, G. J.Leufven 154 



Fattening exjjeriments with sheep during 1895, J. Crude 154 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 



Hog cholera and swine plague in Indiana, A. W. Bitting 157 



The direct transmission of infectious eutero-hepatitis in turkeys, V. A. Moore. 158 



Tuberculosis, F. W. Brewer 158 



