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The San Jose souk; in Illinois, S. A. Forbes 153 



The San Jose scale in North Carolina, G. McCarthy 154 



The San Jose scale and some other insect pests l.V, 



The woolly aphis of the apple, «J. M. Stedman ir>5 



The cucumber Ilea beetle as the cause of pimply potatoes, F. C. Stewart 156 



The lesser leaf folder and the leaf crumpler, J. M. Stedman 157 



Remedies for insects and fungi, C. W. Wondworth 157 



F( )OliS— ANIMAL TKODUCTIOX. 



Dietary studies with reference to the food of the negro in Alabama in 1895 and 



1896, W. O. Atwater and ('. 1». Woods 160 



Dietary studies at the Maine State College in 1895, W. II. Jordan 162 



The influence of beer on the nitrogen metabolism of healthy men, E. R. 



Bertels 163 



The composition of cooked fish, ( Catherine I. Williams 163 



Alfalfa, or lucern : Its chemical life history, I, J. A. Widtsoe 164 



The digestibility of castor-bean meal from which the poison has been removed, 



O. Kellner, A. Kohler, W. Zielstorff, and F. Barnstein 161 



The effects of consuming the daily food atone time or at intervals, F. von 



Gebhardt 1(55 



Slaughter experiments of the German Agricultural Society in L896 165 



Experiments to compare the feeding value of dried grains and other home- 

 made fodders with that of linseed cake, Milne L66 



Investigation of the metabolism of matter and energy of steers on a mainte- 

 nance ration, O. Kellner et al 167 



Feeding for beef, E. R. Lloyd and J. S. Moore 168 



Fattening calves, < >. d. V 169 



The influence of oxalic acid in feeding stuffs, I, S. von Nathusius 171 



Feeding experiment to determine the relative valuo of linseed cake and dried 



distillery grains as a by-fodder for sheep, A. Logan 172 



Experiments on the comparative value of beet diffusion residue silage and 



Tankard fodder beets, P. Gay and E. Fie 173 



Feeding millet to horses, T. D. Iliuebauch 171 



Chickens, J. A. Myers 176 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



On the constitution of the fat globules of cows' milk, V. Storch 176 



Milk fat and cheese yield, L. L. Van Slyke 181 



The restoration of the consistency of pasteurized cream, S. M. Babcock and 



II. L. Russell 181 



Fat determination in milk, E. Gottlieb 183 



Ropiness in milk, C. E. Marshall 183 



Notes on dairy bacteriology, L. H. Pammel and I. J. Mead 183 



Swedish butter exhibitions, 1896, N. Engstrom 184 



A modification of the Babcock method, J. M. Bartlett 184 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AN1> PRACTICE. 



Bovine tuberculosis, M. A. Reynolds 185 



Serum injections as a preventive against lung diseases in horses, ('.<». .Jensen. 



Texas fever, J. W. Conaway 187 



Parasitic gastro-entcritis in lambs, J. McFadyean 189 



Parasites of the lungs of sheep, G. T. Brown 190 



Louping ill, P. Williams 191 



Protest against proposed legislation restricting the experiments of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, J. Wilson 195 



Vivisection in the District of Columbia, C. W. Dabney, jr 195 



