VI CONTENTS. 



I'lige, 



The iniportaiice of parasitic insects in agricnlture, A. Beiiese o71 



Present status of jNIexican cotton-boll weevil in the I'nited States, W A). 1 1 untcr. 371 



Sx)raying tests for codling moth — New Zealand exjjerience 371 



Spraying orchards for the codling moth, F. Garcia _ 371 



The apple-tree tent caterpillar, W. E. Britton ' 371 



Some destructive caterpillars, K. D. Sanderson 372 



Coccidse of Japan, S. I. Kuwana 372 



The rose scale ( Diaspis rosie) , J. B. Smith 372 



Lime, sulphur, and salt wash for scale insects, C 1^ Lounsbury 372 



Cyanid-gas remedy for scale insects, C. P. Lounsbury 373 



The spraying and cleaning of fruit trees, A. (t. Campbell 373 



The grass thrips, L. R. Cary 373 



Thrips on cocoa 373 



Means of combating Tortrix amhiguella, H. (xrosjean 373 



Methods of combating Cleonus punctiventris, S. Skrzhinski 373 



Botijs sticficalis in the summer of 1901, V. P. Pospelov 373 



A S-iwfly on turnips, Bouvier. 373 



Notes on a Phytoptus, A. Kempel 374 



Experimental work with fungus diseases of grasshoppers, L. O. Howard 374 



Lantern traps, P. Coste- Floret 374 



Spraying for city and country, A. H. Kirkland 374 



Directions and formulas for spraying, A. V. Stubenrauch and J. W. Lloyd 374 



Spraying calendar, L. li. Taft 374 



Hydrocyanic-acid gas against household insects, L. 0. Howard 375 



Some mosquitoes of Mississippi and how to deal with them, G. W. Herrick . . . 375 



The mosquito plague in the City of Mexico in 1901, A. L. Herrera 375 



Some parasites of mosquitoes, A. Laveran 375 



The sting of certain Hemiptera, R. Blan chard 375 



Fowl tick, A. A. Brown 375 



Bee culture, C. C. Miller 376 



Practical bee keeping, A. E. Manum . : 376 



Long-tongued bees, A. Gale. 376 



The embryology of the silkworm, K. Toyama 376 



Healthy and diseased silkworms, S. Egidio 376 



FOODS NITTRITIO.V . 



Cereal breakfast foods, L. H. ^lerrill and E. R. Mansfield 376 



The relative cost of home cooked and purchased food 377 



The nutritive value of hens' eggs, G. Lebbin 377 



The composition and nutritive value of biltong, W. D. Halliburton 377 



Effect of preserving meat by covering it with different salts, P. Kuschel 377 



The estimation of the fat content of wheat bread, etc., J. C. Berntrop 377 



Commercial wheat and maize starch, O. Saare 378 



Composition of hard wheats and constitution of hard-wheat gluten, E. Fleurent . 378 



Banana meal, H. H. Cousins 378 



Banana flour 378 



Cassava, E. Leuscher 378 



Composition and nutritive value of certain colonial vegetables, A. de Villiele . 378 



Some unusual food plants, Julia D. Cliandler 378 



On Hamana-natto, a kind of vegetable cheese, S. Sawa. 378 



Concerning the Jai)anese nori, K. Oshima and B. Tollens 378 



Composition of food from horse chestnuts {.Exculus hippocastaniun), Vj. Laves. 379 



Chemistry of confectioners' materials and processes, W. Jago 379 



Sugar in the diet of man, L. ( irandeau , 379 



Diet in relation to age and activity, Sir Henry Thompson 379 



Dietaries in public institutions, W. O. Atwater 379 



The physiology of nutrition, H. P. Armsby 379 



Food and energy, H. P. Armsby ." 379 



Theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development, H. D. 



Chapin 379 



The feeding of infants, J. E. Winters 379 



Concerning temperature regulation in new-born infants, E. Babak 379 



Second annual report of the State food commissioner of Illinois 379 



Sixteenth annual report of the Ohio State dairy and food commissioner 379 



