VI CONTENTS. 



Page. 



The relation of heat to summer diarrheas of infants, Bleyer 462 



Recent contributions to the knowledge of beri-beri, Schaumann 462 



Beri-beri in the Amazon basin, Walcott 462 



Studies in diabetes. — I, Theory of diabetes, Ringer 462 



Studies of pellagra 463 



The secretion of gastric juice in man, Carlson 463 



On the secretion of bile, Okada 463 



Influence of temperature and humidity in closed rooms, Hintze 464 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Genetic studies on a ca\'y species cross, Detlefsen 464 



Crossbreeding experiments with Himalaya and black X tan rabbits, Haecker. . . 466 



Rabbit crossing, II, Haecker and Kuttner 466 



The inheritance of black-eyed white spotting in mice. Little 466 



Zoological relationship between the banteng and zebu, Gans 466 



What is a breed? Lloyd-Jones 466 



A new feeding stuff, by-product of household garbage 466 



Ricinus poisoning, Robert 466 



Fish meal adulterations with meat meal and their identification. Lucks 467 



Inspection of commercial feed stuffs, Smith, Beals, and Howard 467 



Commercial feeding stuffs, 1914-15, [and] Texas feed law, Youngblood 467 



Live stock of the farm, Jones et al 467 



Cattle feeding, Fa\-ille 467 



Structure of wool of pure-bred sheep and of crosses, Giildenpfennig 468 



Value and use of green fodders in the feeding of hogs, Hansson 468 



Swine feeding, Faville 469 



The story of three pigs, Burk 469 



Dbtribution of public service stallions in Wisconsin in 1915, Alexander 469 



Farm poultry', Jull 470 



Mea.surement of the winter cycle in e»g production of domestic fowl. Pearl. . . 470 



Report of the tliird international egg-laying contest, 1913 and 1914, Terrj- 470 



Process for the preservation of eggs, Loft 470 



DAIRY FARMINCf — DAIRYING. 



Raising dairj- heifers : Cost, feeding, and care, Hayden 470 



Dried yeast, potato refuse, malt sprouts, and palm-nut cake, Voltz et al 471 



Effect of feeding on the milk and butter, Cranlicld and Taylor 471 



Effect on fat of milk by sugar beets, Boes and Woyland 472 



Fat content of milk from heifers and cows. Hooper 472 



Rate of passage of fatty acid of food into mammar)' glands of goat, Bowes 472 



Breed origins of the dairy queens, Bain 472 



[World's champion] 472 



Results of cow test association work in New Hampshire, Rasmussen and Da^•i3 . . 472 



The short-time fat test. Reed 472 



The National Dairj' Council, Favill « 472 



Action of inspectors' association 473 



Analyses of frozen milks, Pad6 473 



Milk preserved by freezing, Fascetti 473 



Note on the origin of the lactic acid bacteria in milk, McGuire 473 



Milk receives few bacteria from stable air, Ilall 473 



Bacteriological study of septic sore throat, Krumwiede, jr., and Valentine 473 



The development of fishy flavors in butter, Rogers 473 



High vs. low testing milk for cheese making, Jones 473 



Paraffining whey cheese 474 



How Parmigiano cheese is made 474 



By-products of the city milk plant and their economic value, Schlenvogt 474 



Fermented milks, Rogers 474 



Preserving milk powder 474 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Beri-beri and cotton-seed poisoning in pigs, Rommel and Vedder 474 



Toxicity of sodium pyrophosphate and cotton-seed meal, Symea and 



Gardner 476 



Oil of Chenopodium on circulation and respiration, Salant and Livingston 476 



