1916] CONTENTS. VII 



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Feeding experiments with disintegrated rye straw, Stutzer 474 



On the digestibility of pine needles, Stutzer and Haupt 474 



Experiments with sphagnum turf as a feeding stuff, Stutzer 474 



Cattle feeding.— XI, Winter steer feeding, 1914-15, Skinner and King 475 



Dual purpose cattle, MacKenzie 476 



Sheep feeding.— V, Fattening western lambs, 1914-15, Skinner and Kimj; 476 



Wool studies: Washing before shearing; time of shearing, Hammond '. 477 



Alfalfa as a hog feed. Some pasture crops for hogs, Petfers and Geiken 478 



Concentrates for growing chicks and for laying stock, Jull 479 



Skim milk for laying hens, Lewis 479 



External characters as indications of egg production, Kent 480 



Occurrence and significance of Bacterium pullorum in eggs, Rettger 481 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



The mineral metabolism of the milch cow; first paper, Forbes, Beegle, et al.. . 481 



Silage made from oats and tares as a food for milking cows, Oldershaw 481 



Value of the seven-day test. Woodward 481 



Influence of temperature on proteolytic activity of lactic ferments, Goriui 482 



Experiments in Sweden on the prolonged pasteurization of milk, Barthel 482 



Studies on Swedish Emmental and large-eyed cheese, Rosengren and Haglund . 483 



Cheese making, Stahl 483 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Report of Bengal Veterinary College and Department, 1914-15, Smith and Kerr. 483 



Annual report on the Punjab Veterinary College, 1914-15. Pease et al 483 



Utilization of sucrose and inverting power of the blood serum, Ivuriyama 483 



Intravenous injection of magnesium sulphate for anesthesia, Auer and Meltzer . 484 



Some fallacies regarding phenol, Wilbert 484 



Immunity produced by instillation of horse serum into nose, Sewall and Powell . 485 



Immunity conferred by the transfer of serums, Sewall et al 485 



Serum antitrypsin during inanition, Jobling and Petersen 486 



The coagulation reaction in anaphylactic shock, Hirschfeld and Klinger 486 



Vaccine treatment, Hektoen t 486 



The etiology of rat-bite fever, Blake 487 



The etiology and treatment of rat-bite fever, Tileston 487 



Chinese animal hides, skins, and bristles, Shaud 487 



Resistance of Bacillus anthracis spores to high temperature, Malone and Shanly . 487 



Experiments upon the transmission of rinderpest. Ward et al 487 



The preparation and use of antirinderpest serum, Ward 487 



The heat resistance of bacterial spores, Shanly 487 



On the pathology of bovine actinomycosis, a preliminary report, Griffith 488 



Bacillus enteritidis as cause of infectious diarrhea in calves, Meyer et al 488 



Observations of keratitis infectiosa of the reindeer. Avid 488 



Coccidiosis of Egyptian sheep and goats, Askar 488 



Hog cholera: Its control and eradication, Strodtman and West 488 



Production of clear and sterilized antihog-cholera serum, Dorset and Henley.. 488 



Ascariasis in the horse and swine, Thum 489 



A clinical study of equine strongylidosis, Leneveu 489 



The poisonous effects of the rose chafer upon chickens, Lamson, Jr 489 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Engineering geology, Ries and Watson 489 



Water supply, sewerage, and drainage department [Western Australia], 1914-15 . 489 



Water resources of the State of Oregon, Lewis 489 



Report of progress of stream measurements for 1914, Peters et al 490 



Water samples, Heimburger 490 



Status of activated-sludge sewage treatment, Hammond 490 



Reclamation Board Act of the State of California, 1915 490 



Hydraulic and excavation tables, Davis 490 



Harper's hydraulic tables for the flow of water, Harper 490 



The discharge from vertical pipes, Grunsky 490 



Irrigation module debased for constant flow, Barieau 490 



Small irrigation canals lined with concrete to prevent seepage loss, Edwards.. 490 



Comparison of wood and concrete for use in irrigation structures, Harding 491 



Methods of placing and cost of concrete lining in laterals, Bm'ch 491 



