VIII CONTENTS. 



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Influence of lactic acid on the quality of cheese of the Cheddar type, Doane. . 385 



Losses in making cheese from normal and overripe milk, Harcourt 386 



Home cheesemaking, Elliott 386 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Proceedings of American Veterinary Medical Association 386 



Report of the veterinarian health board for 1908, Hansen 387 



Report of the chief of the veterinary section, Conacher 387 



Colonial veterinary science, Theiler 387 



Contributions to experimental pathology and chemotherapy, Ehrlich 387 



Studies in immunity, Ehrlich et al., trans, by Bolduan 387 



About the varieties of normal opsonins, Chyosa 387 



Are alexins antienzyms of the leucocytes? Yoshinaga 388 



Evidence that toxins reach the spinal cord via the spinal roots, Orr and Rows. . 388 



Tests in regard to the manner in which anthrax serum acts, Bail 388 



Cancer in man and animals, Bashford 388 , 



Zoological position of causative agent of epizootic lymphangitis, Panisset 388 



On differences in precipitins produced by tubercle bacilli, Baldwin 388 



Preparation of sera rich in antitubercular antibodies, Calmette and Massol. . . . 388 



Transformation of the human into the bovine type of tubercle bacillus, Baldwin. 389 



Report of use of antiformin for detection of tubercle bacilli, Patterson 389 



Note on the condition known as "white flesh," Trotter 389 



The pathological anatomy of bacillary pyelo-nephritis of cattle, Ritzenthaler. . 389 



Schiitz's vaccination for hemoglobinuria on bovines 389 



[A new treatment of virulent forms of mastitis], Schmidt 390 



Cattle in the West Indies, May 390 



Serum treatment of infectious calf pneumonia 390 



Anthrax in the pig, Eggebrecht 390 



Experiments with variola of swine, Poenaru 390 



The treatment of surra in horses by arsenic and its derivatives, Holmes 390 



Intestinal streptococci from the horse, the cow, and man, Winslow and Palmer. 390 



A contribution to the clinical study of infectious typho-anemia, Dupas 391 



The etiology of intestinal congestion in the horse, Carre 391 



The susceptibility of the dog to African horse sickness, M'Fadyean 391 



Four cases of diabetes in the dog, Lanfranchi 392 



Enzootic ulcerous keratitis in dogs, Cadeac 392 



The Filaria immitis in Transcaucasian dogs, Gogel 392 



Spirochetosis in fowls in Queensland, Dodd 392 



The development of Spirochxta gallinarum, von Prowazek 392 



Guinea-worm in domesticated animals, Leiper 393 



Classification of piroplasms, with description of two new species, Franga 393 



The biological detection of echinococcus disease, Putzu 393 



The bionomics of helminths, NicoU 393 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Irrigation experiments and investigati(;ns in western Oregon, Stover 393 



The use of windmills in irrigation in the semiarid West, Fuller 395 



[Drainage investigations]. Day - 395 



Building poultry houses. Rice and Rogers 395 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Agricultural wealth production in Uruguay, Backhaus and Macchiavello 395 



A general discussion of agriculture in the Belgian loess region, Van Daalen 395 



The agricultural value of Manchuria, Roselli 396 



The centers of agricultural production in Ohio, Goddard 396 



Farm life conditions in the South, Branson 396 



Origin and condition of the agricultural laborer in Livonia, Agthe 396 



Establishment o! laborers on the land in North Germany, Mendelson and Blume. 396 



Means of counteracting contract-breaking by agricultural laborers, Asmis 396 



Agricultural contracts and the condition of the peasants in Upper Milan 397 



Small holdings in Surrey, Grellier 397 



State aid to agriculture in Switzerland 397 



Reports on the work of the International Agricultural Institute, Faina and Dop. 397 



Cooperation, Wilcox - 397 



