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prohibitive the direct sliipinent of milk aucl sweet cream to city consumers by 

 organizations of producers operating their own plants; and (5) the lack of 

 uniform schedules of milk prices. The leased-car system was abolished October 

 1, 191G, by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



Among the measures advocated for improving the industry are greater coopera- 

 tion among the farmers and the making of definite contracts with distributors 

 for milk in amounts needed for city trade, the surplus being kept on the farm 

 and made into dairy butter and cheese, both of which are readily marketable. 



Country milk stations, functions, organization, operation, construction, 

 and equipment, W. A. Stocking, W. E. Ayees, R. C. Potts, and H. F. Meyer 

 (4^, y. State Col. Agr., Cornell Ext. Bui. 30 {1918), pp. 32, pis. 9, fig. i).— This 

 publication, prepared in collaboration with the Bureau of Markets of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, gives suggestions as to the organization of cooper- 

 ative milk stations, with a form of preliminarj- agi-eement among the organ- 

 izers, sample by-laws and lease ; general directions for construction and equip- 

 ment; and floor plans and equipment tables for the following types of plants: 

 (1) Cooling and canning station, (2) cream shipping station with equipment 

 for making cottage cheese, (3) milk station with pasteurizer and churn, (4) 

 gravity system plant for cream shipping or butter making (2 plans), (5) milk 

 pasteurizing and bottling plant with equipment for butter and cheese making 

 on tlie upper floor, (6) whole milk Cheddar cheese factory, and (7) butter and 

 cheese factory. 



[Reports of the] committee on the production and distribution of milk, 

 W. AsTOR ET AL. {[Bd. Agr. and Fisheries, London], Interim Rpt. Committee 

 Prod, and Distrib. Milk, 1 (1917), pp. 6, pi. 1; 2 (1917), pp. 8; 3 (1918), pp. 30).— 

 These three reports constitute a synopsis of the war-time problems of the dairy 

 industry in Great Britain and the emergency measures deemed necessary. 

 Among the topics discussed are the distribution of labor and feeding stuffs 

 to dairy herds, reduction of waste in transportation and storage, disposal of 

 surplus summer milk, encouragement of winter dairying, milk reserves for in- 

 fant feeding, pasteurization, the proper relation between prices of retail milk 

 and prices of other products, new feeding methods, calf rearing, and estab- 

 lishment of country milk depots. At the end of the first report are charts 

 showing the changes in the retail price of dairy products and of feeding stuflis 

 from January, 1915, to April, 1917. There is a series of appendixes to the third 

 report giving subcommittee reports on (1) milch goats, recommending their 

 use, (2) producers' prices for milk during the winter 1918-19, (3) the commer- 

 cial practice of pasteurization in England with the results of special bacterio- 

 logical studies, and (4) soiling crops for dairy cows. 



VETEKINARY MEDICINE. 



Practical bacteriology, blood work, and animal parasitology, E. R. Stitt 

 (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son <£ Co., 1918, 5. ed., rev. and enl., pp. 3-\-XV-\- 

 559+3, pi. 1, figs. 144)- — "fbe fifth edition of this manual previously noted (E. 

 S. R., 36, p. 574), contains new material in the sections un immunity and dis- 

 infectants and insecticides, a new chapter dealing with the medical importance 

 of poi.sonous arthropods and fishes, and a table giving data as to the most im- 

 portant communicable diseases based upon the report of a committee of the 

 American Public Health Association. A number of the Illustrations have been 

 replaced by new ones. 



Anaphylaxis in veterinary practice, H. P. Hoskins (Vet. Alumni Quart. 

 [Ohio State Vniv.]. 7 (1919), No. 1, pp. 258-264)- — This paper gives a general 

 discussion of the phenomenon of anaphylaxis, particularly as it concerns the 



