Vm CONTENTS. [Vol. 41 



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Stresses in wire rope as applied to modern engineering problems, Howe__ 584 



Concentrated load tests of yellow pine beams, Manville and Hill 584 



Prolonging life of farm timbers, Berry 584 



Results of long-time tests of creosote treated fence posts, Teesdale 585 



Fencing the farm, Rutherford 585 



The Diesel engine: Its fuels and its uses, Haas 585 



Length of motor truck stop varies inversely as braked load 586 



Important and neglected features of tire maintenance, Masury 586 



Directory and specifications of farm tractors 586 



Mole plows woi'ked by horses 586 



A barn for the small farm, Musselman 586 



Practical hog houses for Indiana, Norman and Schwab 586 



Silos and silage in Arkansas, Dvorachek 587 



Stall construction, Musselman 587 



Greenhouse heating, King 587 



Cost of and revenue from electric heating on Minidoka project, Dibble 587 



Analysis of electric cooking situation, Kennedy 587 



Cast-iron, wrought-iron, and steel pipe for house drainage, Gerhard 587 



Rural methods of waste disposal, Evans 587 



Rural drainage, Lafreniere 588 



Treatment of sewage from single houses and small communities, Phelps — 588 



Sewage disposal, Rich and Legg 588 



Sewage disposal, Kinnicutt, Winslow, and Pratt 588 



A new form of septic tank, Wyatt 589 



Grease interception from house sewage, Belmont 589 



Treatment and disposal of creamery wastes, Phelps 589 



Construction and care of fish ponds, Osburn 590 



BUEAL ECONOMICS. 



Rural, social, and economic problems of United States, Galpin and Cos_ 590 



The proceedings of the First National Counti'y Life Conference 590 



Conferences of national organizations engaged in rural social work 591 



First rural life conference of the Rural Welfare League of Texas 591 



Methods of effecting an increase in the home-grown food supplies 591 



Rural community life in the Haute Marne, Bishop 591 



Agricultural organizations in Spain, Jones 591 



The agricultural festival in Moncloa 591 



Twenty-first annual report of Director of Swiss Union of Peasants, 1918_ 591 



Report on employment on land of returned sailors and soldiers 591 



The soldier colonists, Warman 592 



List of references on women in agriculture. Green 592 



[The new laborers' code regulating labor in Germany] 592 



One-third-share farm rent, Beckerich 592 



Farm management, Arnold 592 



How to cultivate an agricultural holding, Vuigner 592 



Cooperation for farmers, Smith-Gordon 592 



Cooperation in the new world, Smith-Gordon 593 



The cooperative marketing of live stock 593 



Cooperative societies for bringing land under cultivation, Tardy 593 



Municipal markets in cities having a population of over 30,000, 1918 593 



Geographical phases of farm prices: Oats, Zapoleon 593 



The sugar question and resupplying France during 1914-1917, Remy 593 



[Agriculture in Alaska] 594 



Statistical report of California State Board of Agriculture for 1918 594 



Agricultural statistics of Canada 594 



[Field crop and live stock report of Canada for 1917], Grisdale 594 



Summary of present condition of agriculture in Chile, Huneeus 594 



[Agricultural statistics of Chile] 594 



[Agricultural statistics of Colombia] 594 



Acreage under crops and numbers and descriptions of live stock in Ireland _ 594 



Acreage and live stock of Scotland, with summary for United Kiugdom__ 594 



[Agriculture in Norway] 594 



[Agriculture and live stock in Sweden] 594 



Finland's farms and farm life, Haynes 594 



Classification of area, etc., in British India, Shirras 595 



