VI CONTENTS. [Vol. 38 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Page. 



Influence of degree of fatness on utilization of feed, Armsby and Fries 469 



Experiments in crop utilization, Letteer " 470 



Commercial feeding stuffs. Hills, Jones, and Anderson 470 



The 28-hour law regulating transportation of live stock, Goding and Kaub 470 



Increased cattle production on southwestern ranges, Jardine and Hurtt 470 



Economical winter feeding of beef cows in corn belt. Cotton and Thompson 471 



Nature and rate of gi-owth in lambs dining the first year, Ritzman 472 



Fish meal as a feed for swine, Ashbrook 472 



Feeding dried pressed potatoes to swine, Ashbrook and Gongwer 473 



Proportions of supplements to corn for fattening swine, Robison 473 



The self-feeder for hogs, Ashbrook and Gongwer 475 



Killing hogs and curing pork, Ashbrook and Anthony 476 



Standardized war rations for poultry, Lewis 476 



Capons and caponizing, Slocum 476 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



Relation of milk- vein system of dairy animals to production, Aldrich and Dana. . 476 



The influence of the sire on the herd, Wilson 476 



Feeding trials with dairy cows in Denmark, Lund 477 



Experiments on the use of rice polish in feeding milch cov/s, Giuliani 477 



The cost of milk and fat production in Vermont in 1911 ancl 1912, Nelson 478 



Cost of producing milk in 1916-17 on 212 Vermont farms. Story and Tubbs 478 



Concerning the Bm'lington milk supply, Carrigan and Abell 478 



Studies on the hygienic production of milk. — Mcroflora of the udder, Gorini. . 478 



What is meant by "quality " in milk, Harding et al 479 



Enzyms of milk and butter, Thatcher and Dahlberg 479 



Suggestions for a standard for butter, Veeder et al 480 



Making butter on the farm, Wliite 480 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Pathogenic microorganisms. Park and Williams 480 



Common parasites of farm animals, Burson 481 



Stability of the erythrocytes of the ox, pig, and sheep, Lyon, jr 481 



The clinical pathology of the blood of domesticated animals, Burnett 481 



Histology of Astragalus mollissimus, Ritter 481 



Effect of temperatures at or above 100° G. on vitamin. Chick and Hume 481 



The effect of X-rays upon diseases of bacterial origin, Kempster 481 



A new mercurial germicide 481 



Report of civil veterinary department, Bihar and Orissa, 191G-17, Quinlan 482 



Report on Punjab Veterinary College for 1916-17, Townsend et al 482 



Infection ancl immunity, Vaughan _ 482 



The intracutaneous absorption of antigen. Smith ancl Cook ' 482 



The specificity of intracutaneous absorption, Smith and Cook 482 



Preparation of protein extracts for diagnostic cutaneous tests. Ferry 482 



[Production of precipitin antigen from bacteria], Krumwiede, jr., and Noble. . 483 



Contributions to biochemistry of pathogenic anaerobes, I, Wolf and Harris 483 



Successful treatment of anthrax by various methods, Dudley 483 



Diagnosis of dourine by means of the conglutination method, Wehrbein 483 



Studies on rinderpest, Schein 484 



Rocky Mountain spotted fever in California, Gumming 484 



Experimental trypanosomiasis: T. equiptrdum infection in dog, Krumbhaar. . . 484 



Complement fixation in experimental trypanosomiasis. Woods and ^lorris 485 



Concerning the trypanosome of swine in the valley of the Inkissi, Greggio 485 



Tissue reactions to various products of tubercle bacillus, Morse and Stott 485 



Efficiency of staining used in identifying tubercle bacillus, Sherwood 485 



Note on Petroff's method for isolation of "tubercle bacilli, Stewart 486 



Tuberculosis in equines, Pickens 486 



Infectious abortion in cows, Hayes 486 



Bovine hematuria, Had wen 486 



Redwater or bloody urine in cattle, Kalkus 486 



Studies of an obscure cattle disease in western Nevada, Mack and Records 487 



The effects of freezing on antihog cholera serum, Kernkamp 487 



Ticks affecting big game, Bradshaw 487 



