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The presence of the barred plumage pattern in the White Leghorn, Hadley . . . 471 



Breeding for egg production, Purvis 472 



Egg-laying competitions at Hawkesbury A^cultural College, Thompson 472 



Methods of fattening, dressing, and marketing poultry, Mitchell 472 



How the produce dealer may improve the quality of poultry and eggs. Pierce.. 472 



Handling dressed poultry a thousand miles from the market, Pennington 472 



Raising guinea pigs, Lantz 472 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



Dairying and its relation to agriculture in semiarid sections, Risser 473 



[Report of the dairy commissioner of North Dakota for 1912], Flint 473 



Progress and prospects of dairying in Virginia, Howard 473 



The management of a dairy farm, Drysdale <. 473 



Winter feeding of dairy cows, Grant 473 



Soiling and summer silage, Daniels 473 



Relation between form and function in the milch cow, Van der Feen-Miiller. . 473 



Relation between live weight and performance in the dairy cow, Peters 473 



Developing dairy Shorthorns, Simpson 473 



The production of sanitary milk by our present milk producers. North 473 



The milk supply of New York City, Lederle and Raynor 473 



The financial stimulus in city milk production, Harding and Brew 473 



The price control factor in the pure milk problem. Hall 474 



The pollution of the air in commercial dairy byres, Hendrick 474 



Character of water for the creamery, Daire 474 



Composition of first-drawn and last-drawn milk, Gilchrist 474 



Contribution on the different forms of lactic ferment, Gorini 475 



The butter tests for 1912, Evans 475 



Feeding potatoes for cheese production], Loomis 475 



The manufacture of Cheddar cheese, Agrostis 475 



Manufacture of Cheddar cheese from pasteurized milk, Sammis and Bruhn 475 



Tatt^, the fermented milk of Scandinavia, Freund 475 



Intoxicating alcohol of milk, Groud 475 



Manufacture of milk powder from various preserved milks, Hittcher 475 



Condensed and desiccated milk, Wells 476 



Dry milk preparation, Kiihl 476 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



A system of veterinary medicine, edited by Hoare 476 



The animal doctor, Leeney 476 



Second report of the director of veterinary research 476 



The weight of the lungs of mammals, Magnan 476 



The nonoperative methods of treating malignant growths, Werner 476 



Biological method for diagnosing pregnancy, Frank and Heimann 476 



Use of antitryptic power of blood serum for diagnosis, Berrdr and Raitsits 477 



Primary serum toxicity, Boerr and Weinfurter 477 



Cotton-seed meal toxicity. — II, Iron as an antidote, Withers, Brewster, et al .. 477 



Examination of milk from newly lactating animals for its enzym content, Gruber 477 



Anaplasms or Jolly bodies? Dodd 478 



Photomicrographs of spirochetse, entamebse, Plasmodia, trypanosomes, etc .... 478 



Encephalic embolic strongylosis or encranial strongylgenic embolism. Law . . . 478 



Studies of the bacillus of Schmorl. — III, Experiments on the rabbitt, C^sari. . 478 



Clarifying open questions with reference to anthrax, Burow 478 



Etiology of recurrent fever; its transmission by the louse, Nicolle et al. . . ; 479 



Trypanosomes v. heat center and anaphylatoxin fever in rabbits, Hirsch 479 



Trypanosoma equiperdum in Russia in Europe, Belitzer et al 479 



The virulence of old (inactive) tuberculous foci in bovines, Uhlenbrok 479 



The significance of bovine tubercle bacilli for man, Orth 479 



Tubercular birds as a cause of tuberculosis in pigs, Bang 479 



Contribution to the symptomatology of tuberculosis in me horse, Augustin 479 



Detection of tubercle bacilli in the circulating blood, Mammen 480 



Value of the alcohol test for detecting milk of diseased animals, Metzger 480 



The action of tuberculin on the nontubercular guinea pig, Klopstock 480 



Vaccination against bovine tuberculosis with laboratory animals, Bruschettini. 480 



Immunization against tuberculosis, Borissjak et al 481 



