CONTENTS. VII 



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Notes on the animal industrj' of Porto Rico, O. F. Cook 173 



Steer-feeding experiments, L. Foster and L. A. Merrill 173 



Report on experiments on winter feeding of cattle, 1898-99, J. \V. Paterson.. 174 



Feeding skim milk to calves, A. L. Haecker 174 



Sheep-feeding experiments, L. Foster and L. A. Merrill 174 



The inrtnence of manures on mutton, W. Somerville and T. H. Middleton 175 



Our horse-raising industry, Switzerland 17(5 



Shelter and care of draft animals and poultry in winter, K. S. Ziirn 17(i 



Breeding thoroughbred i)ouitry, J. J. McCue 17(j 



Ducks and duck breeding, K. Brown 176 



Foreign markets for eggs and poultry, II. K. Alvord, N. B. Ashby, and S. Lowe. 17(3 



The British egg supply, E. Brown 17G 



DAIRY FARMING— DAIRYING. 



Alfalfa protein vs. purchased protein in rations for cows, E. B. Voorhees et al. 176 



Some forage plants fur summer feed, T. L. Lyon and A. L. Haecker 176 



Summer forage crops, J. B. Lindsey 176 



Studies on the rational use of the prickly pear for milch cows, G. Stogia.. 177 



Report of the Hvilan Control Association, 1899-1900, N. Hansson 177 



Report of the Control Association of Vejen and Vicinity, 1899-1900, C. Nye- 



gaard , 177 



The dairy herd, H. J. Waters 177 



Influence of the amount of water consumed on the milk secretion, B. Koch.. 177 



Barilhis lactis r/V'o,s».s, a cause of ropiness in milk and cream, A. R. Ward 178 



The changes in milk caused by heating, J. Sebelien 178 



Calcium and stjdium citrates in the coagulation of milk, etc., L. Sabbatani ... 178 



Tli'e bacteria! condition of city milk, etc., H. W. Park 178 



A re]K)rt upon the examination of nulk, E. A. de Schweinitz 178 



Butter making, C. L. Willoughby 179 



Starters and flavors, G. L. McKay 179 



Moisture in 1 uitter, E. H . Farrington 179 



A comparison of the. yield of salted and unsalted butter, etc., Sebelien 179 



Fishy flavor of butter, the cause and remedy, M. A. O'Callaghan. 179 



Report upon experimental exports of butter, 1898-99, H. Vj. Alvord 179 



Cooperation in Denmark, A. Vind 180 



Meeting of National Creamery Buttermakers' Association, 1901, ¥,. Sudendorf. 180 



Improvement of cheese-curing rooms, J. W. Robertson and J. A. Ruddick... 180 



Testing Cheddar cheese, G. S. Thomson 180 



Statistics of oleomargarine, oleo oil, and filled cheese, R. A. Pearson 180 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 



A preliminary report of poison parsnip in western Washington, D. A. Brodie. 180 



Contagious diseases of animals in foreign countries 181 



Report of chief inspector of stock and registrar of brands, 1899, P. R. Gordon. 181 



Division of veterinary science, New Zealand Dept. Agr., J. A. Gilruth 181 



The Seventh International Veterinary Congress, B. A. Norgaard 183 



Treatment of tuberculous animals by method of Landerer, E. Krompecher . . 183 



The period of incubation of tuberculosis in cattle, etc., Nocard 184 



The growth of tuljercle bacilli on acid media, G. Jochmann 184 



Danger from tuberculous animals, E. Nocard 1 85 



On the seizure and condemnation of tuberculous meat, J. M. Wilson et al 185 



Legislation with reference to bovine tuberculosis, D. E. Salmon 185 



International congress on tnljerculosis, E. A. de Schweinitz. 185 



Anthrax produced in animals by mixing anthrax spores with their feed, 



Nikolsky - 185 



Changes in the anthrax bacillus in decomposing ox blood, E. Berndt 186 



Susceptibility of crosses of Algerian merinos to anthrax. Martinet 186 



The origin of lingual actinomycosis in cattle, A. Breuer 186 



Experiments with Texas fever and Southern cattle ticks, K. C. Schroeder an<l 



W. E. Cotton 18<j 



Hemorrhagic septiciemia in cattle, S. D. Brimhall and L. B. Wilson 187 



Protective inoculation against foot-and-mouth disease, etc., Loefller and 



Uhlenhnth |88 



Ovine caseous lymph-adenitis, V. A. Norgaard 188 



The organism of sheep-pox, E. Nocard 189 



