CONTENTS. V 



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Additional notes on Porto Rican sugar-cane insects, Jones 253 



The California pear thrips in Maryland, Scott ; 253 



Status of spraying for plant lice in apple orchards, Parrott and Hodgkiss 253 



Controlling plant Lice in apple orchards. Hall 253 



Four aphids injurious to the apple, Pickett 253" 



Control of the San Jos6 scale in Missouri, Haseman 253 



Notes on Coccidoe found in Peru, Rust 254 



Report on the gipsy moth work in New England, Burgess 254 



Wilt or gipsy moth caterpillars, Glaser 254 



The squash- vine borer, Chittenden 255 



The verbena bud moth. Fink 255 



The serpentine leaf-miner on cotton, McGregor 255 



List of zoophagous Itonididas, Felt 255 



Arthrocnodax constricta n. sp. , Felt 255 



Losses to rural industries through mosquitoes that convey malaria, Van Dine. . 255 



Introduction of tachinid parasite of sugar cane weevil borer in Hawaii, Swezey . 256 



On the original habitat of Stomoxys calcitrans, Muir 256 



Susceptibility of Pollenia nidis to nicotin, Parrott 256 



The probable best method of rearing certain scarabseid larvae, Girault 256 



Agrilus politus infesting roses, Weiss , 256 



A new pest of cane in Fiji (Sphenophorus nebulosus), Illingworth 256 



Some coccinellid statistics, Ewing 256 



Notes on the rice water weevil (Lissorhoptrus simplex), Webb 257 



Effect of temperature on oviposition of Phytonomus posticus, Parks 257 



Relation of Arizona wild cotton weevil to cotton in arid West, Coad 257 



Notes on the life history of Prospaltella perniciosi. Tower 257 



Capture of living insects by cornfield ant (Lasius niger americarius), Flint 258 



Description of a new sawfly injurious to strawberries, Rohwer 258 



The economic status of the fungus diseases of insects, Glaser 258 



Harvest mites, or "cliiggers," Chittenden 258 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Air, water, and food from a sanitary standpoint, Woodman and Norton 258 



Progi'ess in food chemistrj^, Beckurts, Frerichs, and Beck 258 



Preservation of meat, Gurini 259 



Pork and pork fat and their use in the household, Herter and Wilsdorf 259 



Composition of corn meal manufactured by different processes, Winton et al. . 259 



The use of rice flour in bread making, Novelli 260 



Bitter and sweet cassava — hydrocyanic acid contents, Collens 260 



Ash content of canned vegetables, with special reference to peas, Morgan 260 



[Food and drug inspection] 260 



Ohio food and drug laws 261 



Meat and food inspectors' examinations. Billing and Walker 261 



Selection of household equipment, Atwater 261 



The school lunch service. Brown 261 



Memorandum on providing meals for children in public schools, Selby-Bigge. . 261 



Prevention of beri-beri by modifications in the diet, Chamberlain 261 



The metabolic relationship of the proteins of glucose, Janney 261 



Tho influence of the plane of protein intake on growth, McCollum and Davis. . 262 



Comparative nutritive value of certain proteins in gi'owth, Osborne et al 262 



The influence of natural fats upon growth, Osborne et al 262 



Purin metabolism of man. — III, Decomposition of purin compounds, Siv^n. . . 263 



Metabolism of vegetarians as compared with nonvegetarians, Benedict and Roth 263 



The metabolism of athletes, Benedict and Smith 263 



The basal metabolism of normal men and women, Benedict and Emmes 264 



Factors affecting basal metabolism, Benedict 264 



A respiration apparatus for small animals, Benedict 265 



Con-ections in bomb calorimetry, Huntly 265 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Animal husbandry 265 



Some factors affecting fetal development, Evvard 266 



On the variation in the growth of mammalian tissue in vitro, Walton 267 



The English rabbit and Mendelian unit-character constancy. Castle and Hadley. 267 



Breeding of farm animals, Harper 267 



The jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis), Barnstein 267 



