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[MarketiBg and the cost of living] 867 



Food waste and its remedy 8()8 



The nutritive value of gelatin, Maigiion 868 



The function of fats and carbohydrates in nutrition, Maignon 868 



Carbohydrate metabolism in its relation to thyroid gland, Cramer and Krause. 868 



The influence of protracted and intermittent fasting upon growth, Morgulis. . . 869 



A respiration apparatus for use with small animals, Fridericia 869 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



The making and feeding of silage, Woodward et al 869 



A notorious Indian fodder grass. Hole 869 



Peanut-oil cake, Le Conte et al 869 



On the pressed cake of PeriUa seed, Bredemann 869 



[Commercial stock feeds], McRae 869 



Phosphoric acid, calcium phosphate, and other phosphorus compounds, Girard. 869 



On the cost of meat production, Lan and Mendoza 870 



[Beef cattle in Argentina], Cotrim ._ _- 870 



Feeding experiments on roughages and concentrated feeds, Schneidewind 870 



Advantages from use of pure-bred ram, Hackedom 870 



Sheep for Washington farms, Ashby 870 



Lamb feeding and sheep husbandry in Idaho, Carlyle and Iddings 870 



Feeding experiments with lambs, 1908-1911, Morton 871 



Breeding lambs for fur. Smith 872 



Docking and castrating lambs, Hackedom 872 



Dalgety's annual wool review for Australasia 872 



Productive swine husbandry, Day 872 



Ration experiments with swine, 1908-1911, Morton 872 



Pig-feeding experiment, Hutchison 873 



Feeding work horses, McCampbell 873 



[Report of the] Kansas Live Stock Registry Board 873 



How the English are breeding polo ponies to type. Dale 874 



A wild pony fair 874 



The primary gonocytes during the period of sexual indifference, Firket 874 



Jumping conformation, St. Gatien 874 



Breeding for heavy egg production. Pearl 874 



Studies m egg marketing, Thompson 875 



Preserving eggs, Olson 875 



DATRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



The station dairy herd and the cost of milk production, Lindsey and Smith 876 



Dairyir^ in Oklahoma, Potta and Bray 876 



[Dairy Experiments at Hameln, 1912], Vieth _ 876 



Percentage of milk fat and quantity of milk produced by Ayrshire cows, Vigor. . 876 



Effect of neutralization with chalk on sour-milk bacteria, Makrinoff 877 



Milk hygiene, Ernst 877 



Effect of certain dairy operations on germ content of milk, Harding et al 878 



Some unessential dairy refinements. Hall 878 



Cleanliness and cold as applied to the dairy, Nystrom 878 



Medical milk commissions and certified milk, Kelley 879 



Directions for testing cream, Rinkle 879 



Cause of variation in percentage of fat of cream from farm separators, Jones. . . 879 



The permit system of cream buying, Hine and Droge 879 



Homogenizer experiments. Bishop and Murphy 879 



Milk powders and condensed mUk [analyses of], McGUl 880 



The new warm-chamber method of making "Grana" cheese, Oliva 880 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



The diseases of animals. Mayo 880 



Report on veterinary sanitary service of Paris and the Seine, 1912, Martel 880 



Pathological dangers to domestic animals from contaminated streams, Parker. . 880 



Rotation of blood plasma and serum from animals, Abderhalden and Weil . . . 881 



Blood and exudate leucocytes with reference to phagocytic activity, Amatsu. . 881 



A precipitin for rice protein, Eanahara 881 



