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" The local laborer uses less protein and fat but more carbohydrate than the 

 European. The metabolized food of the former has a smaller calorific value." 



Dietaries suitable for secondary schools, colleges, hostels, clubs, etc., D. C. 

 Moore and C. E. Hecht {London: Nat. Food Reform Assoc, 1919, pp. 54)- — The 

 recipes, food quantities, and menus, and the general suggestions given conform 

 to a weekly expenditure of approximately 8s. ($2) per person. 



Hot lunches in rural schools, S. Laibd (Jour. Agr. and Hort., 22 (1919), No. 

 9, pp. 144, 145, figs. 3). — A plea for the hot lunch in rural schools, with sugges- 

 tions for necessary equipment and supplies. Some account is given of such 

 school lunch work in Canada. 



Health without meat, H. E. Miles (London: Methuen d Co., Ltd., 1918, 5. ed., 

 pp. 134, fiffs. 5). — Essentially a cook book for an egg-lacto-vegetarian diet, with 

 assertions and statements from this standpoint as to methods of saving food 

 and of providing substitutes for meat. 



Study of the intestinal contents of newly born infants, A. Hymanson and 

 M. Kahn (Amer. Jour. Diseases Children, 17 (1919), No. 2, pp. 112-117).— From 

 the analyses of the meconium of 5 infants voided during the first 24 hours of 

 extrauterine life, it was found that the iron and calcium contents were similar 

 to those obtained in hunger feces, while the phosphorus was less and the sul- 

 phur more. Traces of ammonia and amylase were found, but lactase, trypsin, 

 erepsin, and lipase were absent. 



Influence of phlorizin on the energy metabolism, P. Hari and Z. AszoDi 

 (Biochem. Ztschr., 87 (1918), No. 3-4, pp. 176-216), — Experiments on laboratory 

 animals (dogs and rats) indicate, in the opinion of the authors, that the body 

 temperature and energy metabolism are noticeably increased in the case oi! dogs 

 and decreased in the case of rats by subcutaneous injections of small amounts 

 of phlorizin. The destruction of protein is greatly increased in both cases. As 

 the increased protein diet, in the case of i-ats, is accompanied by lowered heat 

 production, the increased heat production in the case of dogs can not be due to 

 the increased protein destruction. Further investigation is needed to explain 

 this difference. 



The hospital metabolic laboratory, F. A. Ford (Candle of Phi Vpsilon 

 Omicron, 4 (1918), No. 1, pp. 26-29). — A discussion of the hospital metabolic 

 laboratory, with reference to the advantages it offers to persons interested in 

 hospital dietetics. 



ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Analysis of feeding stuffs, B. E. Curry and T. O. Smith (New Hampshire 

 Sta. Bui. 187 (1918), pp. 20).— Report is made on 288 samples of feeding stuffs 

 collected during the 1918 inspection. Proximate analyses — mostly without crude 

 fiber determinations — are reported of wheat bran, middlings, shorts, red dog, 

 wheat mixed feed, corn gluten feed, hominy feed, oat feed, oat hulls, barley 

 screenings, linseed meal, ground oil cake, cottonseed meal, cottonseed feed, 

 peanut oil meal, unhulled peanut oil feed, peanut meal and hulls, dried beet 

 pulp, alfalfa meal, meat scrap, and numerous proprietary stock feeds, calf 

 meals, and poultry feeds. A compilation of the manufacturers' statements as 

 to the ingredients in a number of these proprietary feeds is also given. 



Cattle feeding. — XIV, Winter steer feeding, 1917-18, J. H. Skinner and 

 C. G. Starr (Indiana Sta. Bui. 220 (1918), pp. 26, fig. 1; popular ed., pp. 7, fig. 

 1). — To make a further study of limited corn rations for fattening cattle in 

 continuation of work previously noted (E. S. R., 38, p. 873), and to compare 

 the feeding value of silage made from corn and soy beans with that of ordinary 

 corn silage, 69 two-year-old steers divided into 7 lots were included in a 120- 

 day feeding trial beginning December 13, 1917. Lot 4 was given what was 

 considered a medium corn ration, 12 lbs. per head daily except during the 



