VI CONTENTS. 



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New speries of Aphidlinae, a subfamily of plant lice parasites, Viereck 363 



A new specie? of Campoplex, Franklin 363 



Peculiarities of development of Collyria calcitrator, Kurdiumov 363 



A destiuctive pine sawfly introduced from Europe, Britton 363 



A remarkable new genus of Cepbidse, Rohwer 364 



Pneumonyssus fori n. sp., an arachnoid parasitic in the monkey, Weidman ... 364 



Life history of Spirobolus marginatus, Barber 364 



Migrating armies of myriapods, Baiber 364 



Some new gregarine parasites from Arthropoda, Watson 364 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTEmON. 



Digestibility of some animal fats, Langr^'orthy and Holmes 364 



The water content of meat products, Seel 365 



Farinaceous milks, Gobert 365 



Baking qualities of flours from Canadian Western Pro\iDces, Hai court 365 



Baking without grain flour, Ostwald and Riedel 365 



Conserves for the army, Moussu 365 



The composition of frozen oranges and lemons, Young 365 



Certain sanitary aspects of candy manufacture, Cummins 365 



[Food and drug inspection], Ladd and Johnson 366 



Glucose formation fiom human proteins, Janney and Blatherwick 366 



An exclusive oat diet, leading to an acid poiscnins. Morgen and Begcr 366 



Treating beii-beri with constituents of rice polishings, ^\'illiam3 and Saleeby. . 367 



The nature of the dietary deficiencies of rice, McCollum and Davis 367 



The essential factors in the diet during growth, McCollum and Davis 368 



Cause of the loss of nutritive efficiency of heated milk, McCollum and Davis.. 368 



The estimation of carbon dioxid tension in alveolar air, Roth 369 



A text-book of military hygiene and sanitation, Keefer 369 



An improved respiration calorimeter for man, Lang^vorthy and Milner 369 



A respiratory chamber for small animals, KoUs and Loevenhart 370 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION, 



New literature, compiled by Daiber et al 370 



Environmental influence, heredity, correlation, and growth, Sumner 370 



Varia])ilit y and amphimixis, Walton 370 



Effect of the popular sire, Ilaynes 370 



Rabbit crossing, II, Ilaecker and Kuttner 370 



Composition and digestibility of fresh grass and hay, Honcamp 371 



Soft com ears for silage 371 



Ground nut cake 371 



Feeding stuffs inspection 371 



Inspection and analysis of feed stuffs, conditioners, tonics, etc 371 



Commercial feeding stuffs. Hills, Jones, Williamson, and Anderson 371 



Reorganization of the stock breeding department in Brazil 371 



Nutritive ratios for growing cattle, Gouin and Andouard 372 



Changes in the blood of cattle due to the method of slaughter, Squadrini 372 



Sheep industries of United States, New Zealand, and Australia, Marshall 372 



The caracul sheep, the producer of "Persian lamb " and other furs, Wallace 372 



Difference in weight between raw and clean wools, Lewis 372 



Ancestry of the goat 372 



Length of gestation period in Yorkshire sows, Dassogno 373 



Experiments in swine feeding, "W'ithycombe, Potter, and Samson 373 



Straw meal as a feed for pigs, Brahm, von der Heide, and Zuntz 376 



Elephant domestication in the Belirian Kongo, Laplume 376 



Meat scrap, tish scrap, and skim milk for laying pullets. Philips 376 



The value of grit in poultry feeding, Jull 377 



A more accurate basis for computing poultry rations, Dann 377 



A report of February hatched pullets, Thompson 377 



Poultry husbandry, Brown 377 



Poultry and their diseases 377 



Feeding for egg production, Kompster 377 



Practical and inexpensive poultry appliances, Dougherty and Lloyd 377 



