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foods which furnish acids as a means of preventing and curing these diseases 

 are discussed at length. 



Infantile beri-beri, V. L. Andbews (Philippine Jour. 8ci., Sect. B, 7 (1912), 

 A'o, 2, pp. 67-88, pis. S). — According to the author's investigations, the high 

 rate of infant mortality in Manila from beri-beri is due to a lack in the mother's 

 milk of some constituent essential to the development and growth of the 

 child's nerves. The disease is not due to an infection or toxemia of either 

 mother or child. 



Nutrition laboratory, F. G. Benedict (Carnegie Inst. Washington Year Boole, 

 Jl (1912), pp. 2H-229). — An account is given of improvements in laboratory 

 equipment, of apparatus under construction, and of the results of cooperative 

 and other work which has been undertaken. Abstracts are presented of the 

 publications which have appeared during the year (E. S. R., 27, pp. 660, 767, 

 768; 28, p. 213). 



ANIMAL PRODTICTION. 



Fodders and feeding stuffs, F. T. Shutt (Candida Expt. Farms Rpts. 1912, 

 pp. l-iG, 147, l-'fS~lo5). — Analyses are reported of Chevalier, New Zealand, and 

 Hannchen varieties of nonirrigated, spring, and fall-irrigated barley. An 

 analysis of wood pea silage showed water 51.82, protein 8.23, fat 1.72, carbo- 

 hydrates 19.20, fiber 15.18, and ash 3.84 per cent Analyses of corn silage and 

 clover silage are also reported. 



Analyses are given of upland prairie hay, salt-marsh grass (Spartina glabra) 

 a sedge (Scirpus americanus) , a rush (Junous talticus), redtop grass (Agrostis 

 alba), and hay from an "alkali flat" (Sporobolus depauperatus) . 



The comparative composition of Gate Post and Giant Yellow Globe varieties 

 of mangels is given for a number of years, showing the influence of heredity 

 on the relative amount of sugar and dry matter in the mangel. 



Analyses are reported of shorts, oat hulls, oat flour, flax by-products, cotton- 

 seed meal, and miscellaneous commercial feeding stuffs. 



Silos, silage, and silag'e crops for Hawaii, C. K. McClelland (Hawaii Sta. 

 Press Bui. JfO, pp. SO, figs. .'^). — This is a summary of data as to the nutritive 

 value of silage, the capacity and constriiction of silos, the crops for the silo, 

 iiiothods of filling silos, and the feeding of silage. 



[Analyses of fern tree trunks and soy-bean cake], E. V. Wilcox (Hawaii 

 Sta. Rpt. 1912, p. 63). — An analysis of the trunk of the fern tree (Cihotium 

 chamissoi) , a Hawaiian hog feed, showed a moisture content of 69.38, protein 

 1.12. sugars 4.23, starch 20.92, ash 0.33, and phosphoric acid 0.1 per cent. 



An analysis of soy-bean cake is also reported, showing a sodium chlorid con- 

 tent of 23.05 per cent. 



Fish meal as food for stock (Live Stock Jour. [London], 77 (19 IS), No. 

 2039, pp. Jf63, 464). — A short article on the use of fish meal in Germany and 

 Scandinavia as a food for stock. It is said that it has been fed to dairy cows, 

 fattening bullocks, and pigs with excellent results on their productive powers, 

 and without tainting the milk, butter, or flesh. Cattle may be fed a daily al- 

 lowance of from 2 to 2i lbs., and pigs about i lb. 



Concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, J. D. Turner and H. D. Spears 

 (Kentucky Sta. Bui. 170, pp. 65-161). — Continuing work previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 26, p. 568), this reports the results of the state feed inspections in 

 1912, including the protein and fat content of the following feeds: Alfalfa meal, 

 beef scrap, digester tankage, malt sprouts, dried beet pulp, buckwheat, com 

 bran, corn chop, cracked corn, corn meal, hominy meal, cotton-seed meal, lin- 

 seed meal, wheat bran, middlings, ship stuff, shorts, mixed feeds, dried brewers' 

 grains, ehick«i feeds, distillers' dried grains, and crushed ear corn. 



