CONTENTS. V 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Page. 



Distribution and digestibility of the pentosans of feeds, Fraps 168 



Feeding stuffs inspection and analysis, 1915, CuiTy and Smith 168 



The Kansas feeding stuffs law, revision of 1913; amended 1915 169 



Kansas live stock remedy law, with remedies registered April 1, 1915 169 



A system of pasturingalfalfa in Salt River Valley, Ariz., Clothier 169 



The associative digestibility of corn silage, cotton-seed meal, and starch in steer 



rations, Ewing and Wells 169 



Cotton-seed cake v. cold pressed cotton-seed cake and mixed grain, Faville 170 



The maintenance of a beef -breeding herd, Tomhave and Severson 171 



Maintenance rations for breeding flocks of mutton and wool sheep, Severson. . . 171 



Report of the animal husbandman 172 



Rape for fall pigs, McClelland and Ewing 174 



Growing and fattening hogs in Montana, Flint and Miller 174 



[Changes in form due to fattening of horses], Cochel and Severson 174 



Developing draft colts, Cochel and Severson 175 



Individual characteristics of hens, Jackson 175 



Report of the poultry husbandman, Lewis and Thompson 176 



Experiments in fattening fowls for market, Jackson and Mitchell 178 



Crude fiber in the ration of laying hens, Cochel and Jackson 179 



Simple rations v. vaiiety in feeding laying hens, Cochel and Jackson 179 



Improving the Kansas egg, Lippincott 179 



Experiments in incubation, Jackson 179 



Silver-fox ftxrming in eastern North America, Deai-bom 180 



Report of the biologist 180 



DAIRY FARMING DAIRYING. 



Report of the dairy husbandman. Cook 180 



Comparison of certain grain mixtm-es. Van Norman and Davis 181 



Food requirements in an open shed v. regular stabling. Van Norman and Davis. 181 



Food requirements in open shed as compared with regular stabling, Van Norman 182 



Production of the station herd for 21 years. Van Norman and Davis 182 



Rules relative to testing dairy cows 182 



The Sharpies milking machine. Van Norman 183 



Germ content of stable air and effect on the milk, Ruehle and Kulp 183 



Methods of making some of the soft cheeses, Fisk 184 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Report of sixteenth meeting of United States Live Stock Sanitary Association. 184 



Report of seventeenth meeting of U. S. Live Stock Sanitary Association 185 



Water hemlock (Cicuta) , Jacobson 185 



Some observations on the theory and practice of dipping. Cooper and Laws . . . 186 



Suppurative lesions due to diphtheroid bacillus, Hall and Fisher 186 



Dourine and the complement fixation test, Watson 186 



The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at Birkenhead 186 



The identity of Trypanosovia rhodesiense, Yorke and Blacklock 187 



The identification of trypanosomes occurring in Russia, Yakimoff 187 



Delayed reactions following injection of tuberculin, Wills and Linch 187 



History of tuberculosis in the college herd, Ha^Tier 187 



The life history of Nematodirus Jilicollis, Boulenger 187 



Umbilical necrobacillosis in lambs, Mack 188 



The State, owner, and veterinarian in relation to hog cholera, Reynolds 188 



Hog cholera, Cahill 188 



The cranial nerves and blood vessels of the horse, Hopkins 188 



Control of contagious epithelioma by vaccination, Mack and Records 189 



Campaign to eliminate bacillary white diarrhea 189 



RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Excavating machinery used in land drainage, Yamell 189 



State highway mileage and expenditm-es to January 1, 1915 190 



Highway bonds, Hewes and Glover 190 



Trail construction on the National Forests 190 



Telephone construction and maintenance on the National Forests 191 



