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Mendelism of short ears in sheep, Ritzmau 772 



Corn silage for hxmbs, Wilson 772 



Self-feeding hogs, Sayro 773 



Feeding experiments walli work horses, IlansLSon 773 



Sour milk for ehieken feeding, Kempster 773 



Artificial brooding and chick feeding, Schoppe 773 



Fecundity of hens in relation to size of egg. Brown 773 



The ostrich-feather industiy in South Africa, Thornton 774 



The breeding of "whitefish" (Coregonus spp.) in Switzerland, Surbeck 774 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



Influence of nutrition on milk and fat : Overfeeding, Eckles and Palmer 774 



Changes in composition of butter fat by feeding cotton-seed oil. Smith et al . . . 775 



Important factors affecting machine milking, Larsen 776 



Numbers of bacteria in milk which has undergone changes, Hammer and Ilix . . 777 



Effects of temperature on the bacteria in milk. Reed and Reynolds 777 



Studies on the clarification of milk. Hammer 778 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Larkspur poisoning of live stock, Marsh, Clawson, and Mai\sh 779 



Poisonous plants and stock poisoning on ranges of Montana, Swingle and Welch. 781 



The nature of the disease due to the exclusive diet of oats, Funk 781 



The effect of benzene on the production of antibodies, Hektoen 781 



The coexistence of antibody and antigen in the body, Denzer 781 



The effects of vaccine sensitized ^-ith homologous immune serum, Kakehi 782 



On Anaplasma-like bodies in the blood of vertebrates, Porter 782 



Researches on induced horpetomoniasis in birds, Fantham and Porter 782 



The cause of rat-bite fever, Futaki, Takaki, Tariguchi, and Osumi 783 



Cultivation of Bactcrmm tuberculosis on a synthetic culture medium, Magoon. . 783 



Reactions of the tubercle bacillus to spenn oil and its constituents, Miller 784 



Tubercular antibodies and their role, Oalmetto and Massol 784 



Protective inoculat ion of live stock in India, Shilston 784 



Infectious abortion in cattle, Giltner and Hallman 784 



The immunization of Egyptian cattle against rinderpest, Piot 784 



Antigenic value of Spirochscta hyos in hog cholera, King and Drake 784 



Swine tuberculosis: Epidemiology, pathogeny, and evolution, Chauss6 785 



Gas production by strains of Bacillus abort ivo-equinus, Good and Corbett 785 



Sclerostomes in horses, Hartman 785 



Nambi-uvu, a disease of dogs, and the causative parasite, Carini 785 



Tuberculosis of poultry, Welch 786 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Hydraulics, Daugherty 786 



Hydraulics and its applications, Gibson 786 



Water power engineering. Mead 786 



Practical methods of measuring flowing water, Wisler 786 



Tests of loss of head in strainers, orifices, and sand, Pearse 786 



Earth pressure, retaining walls, and bins, Cain. . . 786 



Reports of flood control, Los Angeles County, California 787 



The laws of Indiana for constructing ditches and levees, 1915 787 



Surface water supply of Snake River basin, 1913 787 



Running water for farm homes, Scoates and Carpenter, jr 787 



Sources of water pollution. Hill 787 



The latest method of sewage treatment, Bartow 787 



Sewage purification plants for small country residences, Cotterell 787 



The utilization of ground waters by pumping for irrigation, Smith 787 



Curves for irrigation-ditch velocity and discharge, Douglass 787 



Some studies on the irrigation of citrus orchards, Vaile 788 



Text-book of land drainage, Jeffery 788 



The drainage of white land and other wet lands in Oregon, Powers and Teeter. . 789 



Blasting ditches, Murdock 789 



First biennial report of state highway commission [of Idaho], 1914 789 



Annual report of the highways division [of Nova Scotia], 1915, Donkin 789 



