n CONTENTS. 



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Determination of fat in milk powders, Siegfeld Ml 



Examination and judgment of commercial feed stuffs, von Czadek oil 



Examination and judgment of feed lime and calcium carbonate, von Czadek. . 311 



Examination and judgment of ethyl alcohol, Haas 312 



A new method for preparing alcohol-free fruit and grape wines, Bohi 312 



Technology of sugar, Dejonghe 312 



Yearly report on sugar manufacture, Teyssier 312 



The manufacture of chocolate, Zipperer 312 



Preservation of foods, Escobar 312 



Casein: Its preparation and technical utilization, Scherer, trans, by Salter 312 



The strength of textile plant fibers, Dewey 312 



METEOROLOGY — WATER. 



The organization of a meteorological service for agricultiu-e, Broounoff 314 



Notes on the meteorological bureau of Russia, Broounoff 314 



Meteorological observations in Bergedorf, 1910 and 1911, Schorr 314 



Bulletin of the Mount Weather Observatory 314 



Relation of meteorological study to more logical systems of cropping, Voorhees. . 314 



Agricultural crops and the weather, Broounoff 314 



The influence of the moon on the weather, Wagner 314 



Snow surveys for predicting stream flows, Alter 314 



Underground water supply of west-central and west Florida, Sellards and Gunter 315 



Studies of fish life and water pollution, Clark and Adams 315 



The efficacy of chlorinated lime in purifying drinking water, Cooper 315 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



The formation, properties, and characteristics of agricultural soils, Facio 315 



Analysis of Everglade soils. Rose 315 



Causes of fertility of western Australian semiarid wheat lands, Pfister 315 



Recent investigations on absorption by cultivated soil, Mayer 315 



The plant food of soils under the influence of bacteria, Koch 315 



Decomposition of silicates by soil bacteria, I, Bassalik 316 



The action of cold on micro-organisms and their activity in the soil, Weber 316 



Tests of a bacteria-inoculating preparation, Bredemann 316 



A note on the protozoa from sick soils, Martin 316 



The chemistry of the soil nitrogen, Jodidi 316 



The error of analysis and the nitrogen economy of soils, Pfeiffer and Blanck. . . 316 



Influence of alfalfa and timothy on nitrates in soils, Lyon and Bizzell 317 



Summer temperatures of the soil in relation to the supply of nitrogen, Grasby. 317 



The effect of ignition on solubility of soil phosphates, Lipman 317 



The effect of ignition on the solubility of soil phosphates, Fraps 317 



Fertilization of citrus soils. Smith and Billings 317 



The influence of stable manure upon the fertility of the soil, Owen 317 



The conservation of phosphates in the urine. Browning 317 



The original chemical composition of Peruvian guano 318 



Some analyses of fish scrap, Lindemuth and Parker 318 



The menhadden industry, Tiu-rentine 3i8 



Nitrate shales, Dunstan 218 



Influence of calcium nitrate and ammonium sulphate on phosphates, Nedoku- 



chaev 318 



The production of ammonium sulphate in 1912 318 



Aluminum nitrid and the nitrogen problem, Serpek 319 



Use of sodium bisulphate in preparation of double superphosphate, Periturin.. 319 



Experiments with phosphatic fertilizers in Uruguay, Schroder 319 



European imports of phosphate, Memminger, Gaulin, and Skinner 3i 9 



Experiments to determine effect of potash of phonolite, Hiltner and Lang. . . . 319 



The use of Bohemian phonolite for fertilizing purposes, Seemann 319 



Origin and formation of the German potash deposits, Boeke 319 



Prospecting for potash 319 



Sulphur as a fertilizer, Tritschler 3 9 



Utilization of the waste from the manufacture of trinitrotoluene, Kochetkov... 319 



Value of fertilizing constituents of weeds of Indiana, Mathers and Stapp 320 



Fertilizers, Rose and Heimburger 320 



Analyses of fertilizers, fall season, 1912, Kilgore et al 320 



