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Sugar beet analysis, 1910-11, Carter and Auld 113 



Yearly report on sugar manufacture, Boch 113 



The sugar-beet industry of Germany, Price 113 



Micro-organisms of maple sap. — I, Influence on the sirup, Edson 113 



Micro-organisms of maple saj). — II, Discussion of data on maple sirups, Jones.. 115 



The preservation of fruit and legumes. Relet 116 



Fruit juices, Meunier _ 116 



The fermentation of quince juice, Ito 116 



A new fermenting Monilia, Monilia vinin. sp., Osterwalder 116 



The diminution of acidiiy in fruit and berry wines, Becker 117 



The diminution of acidity in wine, Omeis 117 



Decrease in acidity of unsugared and sugared wines, Halenke and Krug 117 



Deacidif>ang wine by the addition of precipitated calcium carbonate, Omeis. . 117 



[The utilization of the residues, seeds, etc., from wine making], Paris 117 



Preparation of olive conserves by lactic-acid fermentation, Trabut 117 



Bleaching and decolorization of olive oil 118 



Alcohol industry of Philippines. — Fermented beverages, Gibbs and Agcaoili. . 118 



An investigation on the manufacture of tea, Sawamura 118 



The extraction of nicotin from tobacco, Edwardes-Ker 118 



Bibliography of the pulp and paper industries. Surface 119 



Reports of some Austrian experiment stations 119 



Report of Royal Agricultural-chemical Station at Vienna, Dafert and Kornauth. 119 



Report of the chemical station at AInarp, 1911, Weibull 119 



Report of chemical laboratory of Swedish Moor Culture Station, von Feilitzcu . . 119 



Report of the agricultural-chemical laboratory at Udine, Feruglio 119 



Report of the laboratory of the Royal Institute at Klosterneuburg 119 



Subject and author index to Biochemische ZeitschrifL, Neuberg 120 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



Meteorology and agriculture, Shaw 120 



Forecasting the weather, Bliss 120 



Forecasting frost in the North Pacific States, Bcals 120 



A method of classification of winters, Angot 120 



Bulletin of the Mount Weather Observatory 120 



Hurricanes of the West Indies, Fassig 120 



Monthly Weather Review 120 



Summaries of climatological data by sections 121 



Meteorological observ^ations, Stevens 121 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Station, Ostrander and Angier. . . 121 



Relation between the precipitation and stream flow at Cincinnati, Smith 121 



The effect of atmospheric conditions on the hardness of rain water, Wolff 122 



SOILS FE RTILIZERS . 



The Limitation of bacterial numbers in normal soils, Russell and Hutchinson. . 122 



The complexity of the micro-organic population of the soil, Russell 123 



A method for the determination of the number of Protozoa in soils, Rahn 123 



Weathering of silicates and rocks with special reference to humus, Niklas 123 



Investigations on himius acids, Gully 124 



Behavior of amino acids in the soil, Jodidi 124 



Osmosis in soils. — Soils as semipermeable membranes, I, II, Lynde and Bates. . 124 



Studies on evaporation, Demolon and Brouet 125 



Lysimeter investigations, 1912, Kxtiger 125 



Soils of the Sutter Basin 125 



Soil conditions of the river plains regions of Bavaria, Bauer and Weigert 125 



WTiat the United States is doing toward soil fertility, Cameron 125 



Report on cooperative fertilizer and variety tests, Zealand, 1912, Larsen 125 



Factors relating to the availability of nitrogenous plant foods, Lipman et al 126 



The world's consumption of nitrogen, 1911-12, Bertrand 126 



Oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen and resulting industries in Norway, Eyde. . 126 



The Norwegian nitrate industry, Eyde 126 



Experiments on the method of applying sodium nitrate, Demolon and Brouet. 126 



Synthetic ammonia, Bernthsen 127 



Composition, toxicity, and evolution of crude ammonia, Demolon 127 



The fixation of ammoniacal nitrogen by permutite and clay soils, Hissink. . . . 127 



