VI CONTENTS. 



Page. 



The cause and prevention of pellagra, Goldberger 255 



The treatment of pellagra, Lorenz 255 



A nutritional index for school children, Tuxford 256 



Studies of the influence of diet upon growth, Aron 256 



Effect of different foods on secretion of digestive ferments, Wolfsberg 256 



Metabolism of nucleosids, guanosin, and adenosin, Tannhauser and Bommes . . 256 



Digestion of the protein of cooked meat in dogs, Zunz 256 



The excretion of creatinin by normal women, Tracy and Clark 256 



Creatinin and creatin in starvation, Graham and Poulton 257 



On uricolysis, Taylor and Adolph 257 



Influence of a vitamin-free diet on metabolism. Funk and von Schonbom 257 



Calorimetric observations on man, Macdonald, Duffield, and Lucas 257 



Improved myothermic apparatus, Hill and Weizsiicker 257 



The energy requirement of the new born, Bailey and Murlin 257 



The animal organism as a machine, Reach 258 



Mechanical efficiency of man, Macdonald 258 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



The chemistry of cattle feeding and dairying, Murray 258 



The utilization of potato haulms and artichoke foliage, Voltz et al 258 



Value of stems and leaves of sweet potato plants as a feed material, Katayama. . 259 



Manufacture of food for cattle and other animals, Eastick and De Whalley 259 



Inspection of commercial feeding stuffs, Smith and Beals 259 



The acidity of important commercial feedstuffs, Wilk 259 



Animal husbandry. True 259 



Corn silage and cottonseed hulls for fattening beef cattle, Curtis et al 260 



Indian cattle in the Philippines, Edwards 260 



Influence of summer shearing on the skin temperature of sheep, Traut 260 



Caracul sheep in Argentina 261 



The value of silage in the winter ration for the breeding flock, Jones 261 



[Animal husbandry experiments], Youngblood 261 



The sheep and wool industry of Australasia, Smith 261 



A dynamometric calculation of the character of wool fiber, Macha 261 



Nitrogen retention from ammonia salt or urea, Henriques and Andersen 261 



Extent of hippuric acid formation in body of swine, Abderhalden and Strauss. . 262 



The self-feeder for swine feeding, Eward 262 



Productive swine husbandry, Day 262 



Digestion experiments with Equidae, P>anck 262 



Study of the proportions of the horse, Van Meldert 262 



Breeds of draft horses, Bell 262 



The South Oldenburg horse and the influence of environment, Burmeister 263 



The Beery system of horsemanship. Beery 263 



Pituitary body and the early growth period of birds, Wulzen 263 



Influence of male parent on character of eggshells in fowls, Walther 263 



Histological basis of the shank colors in the domestic fowl. Barrows 263 



Natural and artificial brooding of chickens, Lamon 264 



European milk chickens 264 



Method of desiccating eggs, Hara 264 



Seasonal changes in testes and plumage in wdld duck, SeUgmann and Shattock. . 264 



The transmission of secondary sexual characters in pheasants, Thomas 264 



The development of the Ftomach in the Euphonias, Wetmore 265 



Pigeons for profit. — The whole art of squab raising, Bretton 265 



Squab secrets. Rice 265 



The first poultry show in America, Robinson 265 



DAraY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



The value of soy-bean and alfalfa hay in milk production, Caldwell 265 



Feeding experiments with rice-gluten meal, Reisch, Schweiger, and Hansen. . 266 



[Dairy husbandry studies]. True 266 



Dairying on cut-over pine lands, Ferris 266 



Growth of bone, horn, and performance in cattle, Miiller and Narabe 266 



Body weight and milk yield 267 



Observations in Britain on Kerries and Dexters, Plumb 267 



Red Poll dairy cattle.— Report on the departmental herd for 1913-14, Kerr 267 



