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Identity of the proteins extracted from wheat flour, Bailey and Blish 610 



Method for determination of strength and baking qualities of wheat flour, Bailey 610 



Detennination of moisture in sirups by the calcium carbid method, West 611 



The determination of reducing sugars. — A volumetric method, Scales 611 



Analysis of milk and milk products, Leffmann 611 



Reaction and calcium content of milk as factors in the coagulation, Milroy 611 



Determination of the degree of homogenization of milk, von Sobbe 612 



An easy test for bacteria in milk and cream, Jone. 612 



The determination of sucrose in condensed milk. Knight and Formanek 612 



The determination of ammonia nitrogen in steer's urine, Cochrane 613 



Method for quantitative determination of lactic acid in urine, Schneyer 613 



The estimation of Lipoid and acid-soluble phosphorus in serum, Greenwald 613 



METEOROLOGY. 



Variation in minimum temperatures of a mountain valley, Batchelor and West . . 613 



Reforestation and condensation, Descombes, trans, by LjTuan and Abbe, jr 614 



Monthly Weather Re\iew 614 



Climatological data for the United States by sectiona 615 



Meteorological summaries for the years 1912, 1913, and 1914 615 



Meteorological summary for the year 1914, Knight and Brown 615 



Nitrogen, chlorin, and sulphates in rain and snow, Artis 615 



SOILS — FERTILIZERS. 



Soil survey of Lawrence County, Alabama, Lewis and Stroud 615 



Soil survey of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Goodman, Hanson, and Reid 616 



Soil survey of Harrison County, Missouri, Vanatta and Knoble 616 



Soil survey of the Freehold area. New Jersey, Jennings, Dickey, and Lee 616 



Soil survey of Brj-an County, Oklahoma, Carter, jr., and Patrick 617 



Reconnoissance soil survey of northeastern Wisconsin, Geib et al 617 



Soil survey of the Bayfield area, Wisconsin. Wliitson et al 617 



Soil survey of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Whitson et al 617 



Soil survey of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Whitson et al 617 



Soil survey of Waushara County, Wisconsin, Whitson et al 617 



Report of soil work 617 



Notes on the soils of the Wairau Plain, Marlborough, Wild 617 



Nitric nitrogen of the black soils of the arid regions of Russia, Tulaikov 618 



Peat lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Stewart 618 



The economic utilization of peat and moors, Hoering 618 



The average thorium content of the earth's crust, Poole 619 



Soil formation and composition, Ames 619 



The formation of humus by means of vegetable compounds, Trusov 619 



Relation between bacterial actiWties in soils and crop-producing power, Brown. 619 



Soil fertility experiments, Roberts 620 



[Soil fertility experiments], Kastle 620 



Influence on crop and soil of manures applied to meadow, Crowther and Ruston. 620 



Live stock and soil fertility, Thorne 621 



Lime and commercial fertilizers in the maintenance of soil fertility, Thome. . . 621 



The manurial situation and its difficulties, Hendrick 621 



The nitrogen problem in arid soils, Lipraan 621 



Pot experiments on the availability of nitrogen, Lipman et al 621 



Nitrogen utilization in field and cylinder experiments, II, Lipman et al 622 



The effect of sulphate of ammonia on soil, Ruprecht and Morse 622 



The action of calcium nitrate and sodium nitrate, Reitmair 622 



Lime nitrogen and its value as a top-dressing, Hoffmann : 622 



The size of kelps on the Pacific coast of North America, Fiye et al 623 



The composition of blast furnace gas dust (kali-asch), Viirtheim 623 



Relation of lime to production of nitrates and mineral nitrogen. Scales 623 



Catalytes and their relation to crops, Musso 623 



Influence of manganese compounds on nitrification, Leoncini 623 



Influence of fluorin on vegetation, Gautier 624 



The manurial value of locusts, Collens 624 



Meadow fertilization with sewage sludge, Eberhart 624 



Peat litter and peat-litter works, Zailer 624 



Analyses of inspection samples of fertilizers, Willard and Wiley 624 



Inspection of commercial fertilizers, Haskins, Walker, Jones, and Frost 624 



