1918.1 CONTENTS. 



Lamb feeding 672 



The agricultural situation for 1918. — I, Hog production should be increased. . . 672 



Swine, Archibald et al 672 



Rations for pigs at weaning time, Weaver 674 



Digestion experiments with pigs, Grindley et al 675 



Mesquite beans for pig feeding 675 



Tankage for pigs 675 



Inheritance investigation in swine 675 



Horses, Archibald et al 675 



Physiological effect upon work horses of alfalfa hay 676 



Com silage as part ration for horses of various ages, Trowbridge and Hughes 676 



Report from the poultry di^'ision for 1916, Elford et al 677 



Preliminary report of the first year of the Vineland contest, Lewis 677 



Poultry experiments 678 



Very early hatches pay best, Shoup 678 



Poultry on the farm, Dougherty 678 



DAIRY FARMING DAIRYING. 



Dairy cattle, Archibald et al 678 



[Feeding experiments with daiiy cows], Hooper 680 



Feeding daiiy cattle, Shields 680 



Roughages for milk production, Hayden 681 



[Sudan grass pastui'e for dairy cows] 681 



Winter rations for dairy heifers, Eckles and Swett 681 



Influence of nutrition of heifers and age of breeding, Eckles and Swett 682 



Factors influencing the composition of milk, Eckles et al 682 



A study to determine the cause of gummy body of butter. Shields et al 683 



Stage of lactation affects milk yield, Grady 683 



Marketing Wisconsin milk, Hibbard and Erdmann 683 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



[Report of the veterinary department], Connaway et al 684 



Peptone-free media for routine culture work. Ferry and Noble 684 



Serum veal agar: A substitute for ascitic or blood agar. Ferry and Noble 684 



[The Abderhalden l^ood test], Himmelberger and Anderson 684 



Eupatorium urticsefolium as a poisonous plant, Marsh and Clawson 685 



Gossypol, the toxic substance in cotton seed, Withers and Carruth 685 



The solvent action of antiseptics on necrotic tissue, Taylor and Austin 685 



Methods of controlling blackleg developed by the Kansas College, Goss 686 



The eradication of tuberculosis from cattle and swine, Kieman 686 



The struggle against bo\dne tuberculosis, Granu 687 



Control of tuberculosis and infectious abortion, Moore 687 



Paspalum notatum, cause of new disease of cattle, Rosenbusch and Zabala 687 



Concerning " pasto dulce " and the disease wdaich it causes in cattle, Hauman . 687 



"El gramillon" or "pasto dulce," Rosenbusch and Zabala 687 



Renguera, a paralytic sheep disease in Peru, Gaiger 687 



Enzootic paraplegia in sheep, Tabusso 688 



Experimental studies in hog cholera, Craig and Whiting 688 



Notes on parasitic anaphylaxis and allergy. Van Es and Schalk 689 



On the treatment of lymphangitis in the horse, Chaussee 689 



Bacillary white diarrhea, Lunn 689 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Second report of the State engineer of New Mexico, French 689 



Land drainage: Notes on open and pipe draining. Grant and Faulkner 690 



Tile drainage for the farm, Walker 690 



Subsidence of muck and peat soils in southern Louisiana and Florida, Okey . . . 690 



Leveling of old battle fields, Ringelmann 690 



Surface water supply of New Mexico, 1916, French 690 



[Ground water studies in the Rio Grande and Socorro Valleys] 690 



Surface waters of Vermont, Pierce 690 



Analyses of mineral and potable waters, Peter, Averitt, and McHargue 690 



Mineral springs of Alaska, Waring 690 



Well waters from farm homesteads, Shutt 691 



