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products presented to the thirty-second convention of the Association of Official 

 Agricultural Chemists at Washington, D. C, November 15, 1915. 



Sixteenth biennial report of the Minnesota State Dairy and Food Coninais- 

 sioner, J. J. Fabkell {Bien. Rpt. Minn. State Dairy and Food Comr., 16 

 (1915-16), pp. llJf, figs. 5). — This publication reviews the worlf of the dairy 

 and food division for the two years ended July 31, 1916. It also includes the 

 results of the analyses of a large number of miscellaneous food products, re- 

 ports of sanitary inspections, etc. 



What to feed the children, Dorothy R. Mendenhall and AiiY L. Dani>:ls 

 {Wis. Col. Agr. Ext. Serv. Circ. 69 (1917). pp. 10, figs. 5).— Suggestions are 

 given for the feeding of healthy infants and young children. 



Manual for army cooks, 1916 (War Dcpt. [U. S.], Doc. 56k (1917). pp. 270, 

 pis. 3, figs. 33). — The first chapter of this manual contains definitions of a great 

 number of culinary terms and later chapters are devoted to a consideration of 

 the garri.son ration, meat and fish, elementary principles of cooking and nu- 

 trition, management of the company mess, field cooking, and messing on rail- 

 road trains and transports. The manual contains descriptions of various types 

 of cooking utensils and field and other cooking ranges, and a large number of 

 recipes. 



Reports of the executive committee of Mayor Mitchel's Committee on Food 

 Supply, G. W. Pebkins (Netc York: [City], 191J,, pp. 20). — This is a pre- 

 liminary report on the increa.se in price of foods, which is attributed to four 

 important factors, namely, " the present and anticipated foreign demand for . . . 

 [United States] domestic foodstuffs for future shipment; tlie heavj- buying of 

 household supplies by housewives against future needs; the holding back by 

 the producer; and the stocking up by local storekeepers and village storekeep- 

 ers — the latter rhi.ss having made unusually heavy demands on the producers 

 and wholesalers throughout the conntry." 



The control of food supplies in blockaded Germany, A. E. Taylor (Saturday 

 Even. Post, 189 (1917). No.i. .^, pp. 7, 8, 56. 59. 61, 64. 65. figs. 2; 35, pp. 18-20, 

 35, 37, 38. J,l, J,3, J,6, 47. figs. 9; 36, pp. 25. 26. J,9. 50. 53. 55 figs. 7).— This 

 article gives an account of the measures developed by the German Government 

 to combat the shortage of fo<Kl resulting from the blockade and other phases 

 of the war. 



Food values in Belgium. H. Snyder (Northiccst. Miller, 110 (1917), No. £, 

 pp. 96, 117). — This is a review of a pamphlet by R. Smith, which pre.^ents data 

 regarding the foods u.sod. their cost and nutritive value, and the distribution 

 of supplies in the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. 



The physiology of food and economy in diet, W. M. Bayuss (London: 

 Longnuni.H. (irecn d Co., 1917, pp. VHI + 107). — The first chapter of this book 

 considers briefly the itroblem of food as a whole. Later chapters are devoted 

 to the uses of food, the quantity of food required, acce.ssory food factors, digesti- 

 bility, value of cooking, characteristics of certain articles of the diet, possibili- 

 ties of economy, etc. A list of references concludes the publication. 



The desire for food in man, Minna C. Denton (Set. Mo., 3 (1916). \o. 6, 

 pp. 557-568). — The author analyzes, on the basis of recent experimental data, 

 hunger and appetite, which are considered to be distinctly difTeront motives in 

 the desire for food. 



The supplemental dietary relationships among our natural foodstuffs, 

 E. V. McCoLLUM (.V. r. Med. Jour., 105 (1917), No. 4. PP- 167, i6.S).— This is a 

 summary of a lecture in which the author reviews briefly the results of his 

 experiments which have been noted in full from their original sources. 



[Progress in] physiological chemistry, F. G. Hopkins (Ann. Rpts. Prog. 

 Chcm. [London], IS (1916), pp. 195-218). — A summary and digest of expert- 



