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Hereditary traits in milch st«ck as revealed by Danish control unions, Dunne. . 578 



The formation of cow-testing associations, Wing 578 



Milking machines: Their efficiency in producing clean milk, Wing 578 



Administration of extracts of pituitary body and corpus luteum to cows, Gavin . . 578 



Acidity of cows' milk, Chretien 579 



Observations on the fat globules in milk, Cooper et al 579 



The enumeration and measurement of fat globules in milk. Cooper et al 579 



Influence of temperature on the physical condition of milk fat. Van Dam 580 



Slime-forming bacteria, TroUi-Petersson 580 



Sterilizing milk by electricity 580 



Some weaknesses of the cit>' inspection theory, Steffens 580 



Farm butter making, Keithley 580 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Text-book of pharmacology for veterinarians, Miiller 580 



The extra pharmacopoeia, Martindale and Westcott 580 



Yearly report on progress in veterinary medicine, edited by Ellenberger et al. . 581 



Report of the acting director of veterinary research, 1911, Theiler 581 



Rapid method of producing precipitins and hemolysins, Gay and Fitzgerald. . 581 



Antibody formation during preparation of sera, Hindersson 581 



Agglutination of different strains of Micrococcus melitensis, N^gre and Raynaud . . 581 



Melitensis and paramelitensis, N^gre and Raynaud 582 



Identiiication of Micrococcus paramelitensis, N^e and Raynaud 582 



Algerian sheep and anthrax, Lh^ritier, Fleury , and Tribout 582 



Foot-and-mouth disease, McFadyean 582 



Nuttallia and Piroplasma in piroplasmosis of solipeds, Dschimkowsky and Luhs. 582 



The recent campaign against rinderpest on the island of Panay, Thomson 582 



Tuberculosis, Balfour, Archibald et al 582 



The staining of spores of the tubercle bacillus, Kirchenstein 582 



Amount of tubercle bacilli in bile of tubercular animals, Joest and Emshoff 582 



The type of tubercle bacilli in the sputum of man, Weber and Dieterlen 582 



Human tubercle bacilli in the milk of a vaccinated cow, Griffith 583 



Tubercular antigens and antibodies, Calmette and Massol 583 



Differentiation of active and inactive tuberculosis in bovines, Wyschelessky . . 583 



Comparative investigations of the tuberculin tests, etc., Assmann 583 



Protective vaccination tests against tuberculosis, Krautstrunk 584 



The protective vaccination tests of Krautstrunk, Klimmer 584 



The transmission of anaplasmosis by means of ticks, Theiler 584 



The transmission 6i East Coast fever by means of ticks, Theiler 584 



Tick bite in British Columbia, Todd 585 



Biology of the cattle tick as determined at Auburn, Ala. , Graybill and Lewallen . 585 



Dipping vats and dips, Cary 585 



Inquiry into dips and dipping in Natal, Theiler and Gray 585 



Oxidation of the arsenite of soda in dipping tanks, Williams 585 



The toxic properties of arsenite and arsenate of soda, Muller 586 



The reported hosts of Cysticercus cellulosas, Ransom 586 



The diagnosis of infectious abortion in cows, Hantsche 586 



Diagnosing infectious abortion in cows, Schulz 586 



Chronic diarrhea in cattle. — Johne's disease, Mellon and MacGinnis 587 



Specificity of ultramicroscopic bodies in pleuro-pneumonia, Freiberger 587 



Worms in sheep. — Some experiments in treatment, Henry 587 



Forage poisoning or cerebrospinal meningitis, Mohler 587 



Enzootic cerebrospinal meningitis (Boma disease) of the horse, Schmidt 587 



Cerebrospinal meningitis (encephalitis) in horses in 1912, Udall 587 



Parasitic mange in horses, asses, and mules 588 



The cultivation of the fowl spirochete, Danulesco 588 



Serotherapy and protective vaccination in fowl spirochetosis, Aragao 588 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Irrigation resources of California and their utilization, Adams 588 



Meadow farming in the land of the Sieg [Siegerland], Heinemajin 589 



The right drain for the right place, Jones 589 



A simple and economical method of burning lime, Arnold and Nichols 590 



Progress reports of experiments in dust prevention and road preservation, 1912 . . 590 



Rock asphalts of Oklahoma and their use in paving, Snider 591 



