VI , CONTENTS. [Vol.38 



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Studies on inbreeding. — VII, Expression of degrees of kinship, Pearl 65 



Fecundity and relation between male and female descendants in pigs, Machens . 65 



Maturation of the ovum in swine, Comer 65 



Experimental intersexuality and the sex problem, Goldschmidt 65 



The control of sex, Morosini 66 



A method of calculating food values, Siichting 66 



Fodder grasses of German East Africa, Honcamp and Zimmermann 66 



Concentrated protein meals for dairy cattle, sheep, and swine, Archibald 66 



The by-products of rice milling. Reed and Liepsner 67 



Inspection of feeding stuffs 67 



yLnimal husbandly] work of the Belle Fourche farm in 1916, Aune 67 



nergy values of hominy feed and maize meal for cattle, Armsby and Fries. . . 68 



Steer feeding experiments, Tomhave and Severson 68 



Body measurements of steers, Tomhave and Severson 69 



The maintenance of a beef-breeding herd, Tomhave and Severson 69 



The economic importance of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, Stewart 69 



[Zebu cattle], Luaces 69 



Calf-rearing experiments at Woburn, 1916-17, Voelcker 69 



Farm sheep raising for beginners, Marshall and Millin 69 



Dry lot t) . pasture crops for growing and fattening pigs, Tomhave and Havner 69 



Fattening pigs for market, Tomhave and Havner 70 



Report on pig feeding experiments, in 1914 and 1915, Paterson and Robb 70 



Report on feeding pigs at East Kilbride, Wyllie 70 



Fattening di'aft horses for market, Havner and Goodling 71 



The encouragement and improvement of light horse breeding, 1915-16 71 



Poultry-feeding tests, Brown 71 



The proteins of certain insects as food for poultry, McHargue 71 



[Report of poultry laying competition, 1912-1915], Rhodes et al 72 



Egg-laying tests at Hawkesbury, 1916-17, Ross and Hadlington 72 



Marketing eggs by parcel post, Flohr 72 



DAIRY FARMING DAIRYING. 



Some nitrogen studies with dairy cows in milk. Putney and Larson 73 



Standard cows, Robertson 74 



Should all heifers be raised? Eraser 74 



Age at first calving, White 74 



Sunflowers as a silage crop, Lagrange. _. 74 



Bacteriological methods for quality of milk, I, Sherman and Reynolds, jr 74 



Determination of bacteria in ice cream, Ayers and Johnson, jr 77 



Studies on the production of sanitary milk, Sherman 75 



Analogy between lactic ferments and streptococci, Cardot 75 



Butter shiinkage, Guthrie 77 



Influence of salt on changes in storage butter, Washburn and Dahlberg 77 



Blowing renovated butter oil at pasteurizing temperature, Shaw and Norton. . 77 



Soft cheese making. Brown and Mortensen 78 



How to make cottage cheese on the farm, Matheson and Cammack 78 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Veterinary obstetrics, Williams 78 



Report of the veterinary department for 1916, Gibson 78 



A plea for the standardization of reports of agglutination tests, Hadley 78 



Studies in anaphyLtxis, XX, Weil _. 78 



Role of hepatic tissues in acute anaphylactic reaction, Man waring and Crowe 79 



Fate of foreign protein in acute anaphylactic reaction, Manwaring et al 79 



The influence of temperature on the fixation of complement. Dean 79 



Preservation of complement. — A preliminary report, Rhamy 80 



Anthrax in the Territory of Hawaii, Norgaard 80 



The susceptibility of the prairie dog to rabies, Walters. 80 



Rinderpest in ewine with experiments upon its transmission, Boynton 80 



The recent outbreak of vesicular stomatitis, Leibold. . .^ 80 



The sensitiveness of tubercle and other acid-fast bacilli to_ acids, Porter 80 



The bacteriolytic action of gland extracts on tubercle bacilli, Porter. 81 



Claimed differential characteristic of avian tubercle bacillus, Rochaix 81 



Vaccination against bovine tuberculosis, Bruschettini 81 



TuberciUosis in farm animals, McArthur 81 



