n CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Minimal content of total nitrogen of milk, Kling 207 



The determination of the titer of arsenite solutions, Deiss 207 



Vinegar making, Bioletti 207 



Manufacture of unfermented fjrape juice in California, Cruess and Ilintze 208 



Clarification of grape juice, Bioletti 208 



Amounts of wine and by-products yielded by grapes in California, Bioletti . . . 208 



Use of sulphurous acid and pure yeast in wine making, Bioletti 208 



A new method of handling the distillation residues of wines, Matignon 209 



Bitter principles of olives, Bioletti 209 



Softening of olives, Bioletti 209 



Sizing of pickled olives, Bioletti 209 



Olive paste, Bioletti 209 



A history of the canning industry, edited by Judge 210 



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METEOROLOGY. 



Weather forecasting, Simms 210 



Monthly Weather Review 210 



The weather and climate of Chicago, Cox and Armington 211 



Report of meteorological observations at Wisley , 1913, Curtis 211 



The rainy season in southern Rhodesia, Goetz 211 



The microbic content of indoor and outdoor air, Winslow and Browne 211 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



The fertility in Iowa soils. Brown 211 



Soil acidity and the liming of Iowa soils. Brown, Howe, and Sar 212 



The utilization of muck lands, Robinson 213 



Soil survey of Ralls County, Missouri, Sweet and Watkins 213 



Soil survey of Cass County, Nebraska, Meyer, Scarborough, et al 214 



Soil survey of Forsyth County, North Carolina, Allen and Jurney 214 



Soil survey of Union County, South Carolina, Lounsbury et al 214 



Soil survey of Henrico County, Virginia, Latimer and Beck 214 



Systematic study of the soils of the Netherlands, Maschhaupt 215 



The scouring lands of Somerset and Warwickshire, Gimingham 215 



Soil culture primer, Campbell, revised and edited by Haste 215 



A nitrogenous soil constituent: Tetracarbonimid, Shorey and Walters 215 



Recent investigations of soil concretions due to manganese or lime, Helbig 215 



Determining water content of soil on basis of soil volume, Regel 216 



A study of the bacterial activities of virgin and cultivated soils, Greaves 216 



Bacteriological studies of field soils. — III, Effects of manure, Brown 216 



The results of fertilizer and variety tests, Rogalski 216 



Fertilizer experiments, 1911-1913, Schneidewind and Meyer 216 



Experiments with fertilizers in Java, De Jong 217 



The fertilizing of fish ponds, Hamer 217 



The nitrogen of processed fertilizers, Latlirop 217 



On the presence of nitrites in calcium cyanamid, Manuelli 217 



The synthetic use of metals in organic chemistry, Hale 217 



Phosphate deposits in the Mississippiau rocks of northern Utah, Peterson 217 



Production and value of citric-soluble phosphoric acid and potash, Waggaman. . 218 



Progress in the potash industry in 1913, Hof 218 



Ashes of hedge clippings and trimmings as a source of potash, Russell 218 



Potassium salts and agriculture 218 



The so-called potash liine, a by-product of potash works, Ehrenberg and Nolte. . 218 



Relation of the use of lime to the improvement of the soil, Fippin 218 



Recent investigations on magnesia, Miege and Compain 218 



The utilization of fish and marine animals as sources of oil and manure 219 



Fish meal and fish manure 219 



Transformation of vinasse into fertilizer, Roos 219 



Road sweepings as manure 219 



Fertilizers, Rose and Wilson 219 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, Curtis 219 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, Stackhouse, Brackett, et al 219 



Commercial fertilizers in 1913-14, Fraps 219 



The South and the fertilizer industry 219 



