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CONTENTS. [Vol. 35 



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Experiments with laying hens, Buss 171 



Feeding acorns to fowls, Hink i/^ 



Poultrv management; care of breeding stock and chicks, Peterson 17^ ^ 



A study of the preparation of frozen and dried eggs, Pennmgton et al 173 



The bacterial infection of fresh eggs, Hadley and Caldwell 176 



DAIRY FARMING DAIRYING. 



The value of potatoes for milk production, Voltz and Dietrich 174 



Mangolds or swede turnips for dairy cows, Dunne. ............. 174 



Nutritive value of Juncus effmus and Scirpus lamstns, von Ertzdortt-Kuptter. . 175 



Cooling milk, Koss and Mclnemey 175 



Artificial refrigeration 175 



New method for destruction of bacteria m milk by electricity, Lewis 175 



The electrical treatment of milk for infant feeding, Beattie 176 



Scoring of milk and cream, Esten and Mason 176 



The production of first-grade cream in Oklahoma, Potts 176 



Tests and comparisons of commercial lactic starters, Mason 176 



Ice cream. Evaporated milk 176 



Bacteria studies of Camembert cheese, Esten and Mason _ 177 



Classification and nomenclature of lactic acid organisms, Lohnis 178 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Animal disease and our food supply, Mitchell : • • • : 1'^^ 



Economic importance of the Federal inspection of meats, Ditewig 178 



Strength of disinfectants in relation to their concentration, Gregersen 179 



The formation of specific proteoclastic ferments, Hulton _ 179 



Cachexia following parenteral injection of homogenous organ proteins, Dold 179 



Mechanism of cleavage process in Abderhalden's dialysis procedure, Plant 179 



Abderhalden procedure used in testing serum of horses, Bernhardt and Hofherr . . 179 



The control of foot-and-mouth disease with "rindol," Matthiesen and Glasser. . 180 



Contributions to the serodiagnosis of glanders, Pfeiler 180 



The agglutinin, precipitin, and complement-deviating substance content of the 



body fluids of glanderous horses, Borchardt 180 



Toxicity of blood serum of luetics for anaphylactic guinea pigs, Misch 180 



Complement fixation in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, Craig 180 



The significance of bovine tuberculosis to human tuberculosis, Orth 181 



Tuberculosis in dog and relation to man, Markus and Schornagel 181 



Tuberculosis in Finmarken with special reference to living conditions, Wessel . . 181 



Studies on tuberculosis, XIV, Arkin and Corper 181 



Studies on tuberculosis, XY, De Witt and Sherman 181 



Contributions to the serodiagnosis of typhus, Papamarku 182 



"Lungworms," a preliminary report on treatment, Herms and Freeborn 182 



Some lice and mites of the hen, Lamson, jr., and Manter 183 



Bacillary white diarrhea of young chicks: Its eradication, Rettger et al 184 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



How engineering may help farm life, McCormick 184 



The law of irrigation, compiled by Davis 185 



Irrigation prat'tice and engineering. III, Etcheverry 185 



The flow of water in irrigation channels, Ellis 185 



The automatic volumeter, Hopson 185 



Diagram giving excess loss of head in 90° bends, Bailey.'. 186 



Machine for placing concrete lining in canals, Davis 186 



Experiments on the economical use of irrigation water in Idaho, Bark 186 



Ground water in San Joaquin Valley, California, Mendenhall et al 186 



Kadio-activity of spring water, Ramsey 187 



"Water supplies tf) rural and small urban areas, Savage 187 



Well waters from the trap area of western India, Mann 187 



A Himple procesa for removing micro-organisms from water, s'trell 187 



The activalcd-sludge process of sewage purification, Fowler 188 



Experimental work on activated eludge at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hatton 188 



Ninth report of State highway commissioner of Virginia, 1915, Coleman 188 



Methoda of bnck pavement construction . 188 



