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The chemistry of churning-, L. S. Paxmeb {Missouri Sta. Bui. 16S (1919), 

 pp. 40, 41). — The microscopic examination of butter made from cream stained 

 with Sudan III and fuchsin is held to confirm the theory of Fischer that butter- 

 making consists of the transformation of a fat-in-colloid-hydrate emulsion 

 (cream) into a colloid-hydrate-in-fat emulsion (butter). The physical chem- 

 istry of difficult churning is being investigated. 



Cheese making under Missouri conditions, L. W. Mobley {Missouri Sta. 

 Bui. 163 {1919), pp. 39, ^0). — In connection with a study of cheese-ripening 

 methods, a trial has been made with a method of curing cheeses in an at- 

 mosphere of carbon dioxid. It is thought that this plan, which effectively 

 prevents the growth of mold, may solve the problem of curing cheese satis- 

 factorily in pound packages. 



The rediscovery of an old dish, H. P. Davis (f7. 8. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 

 1918, pp. 269-276, pi. 1). — The author describes the recent nation-wide cottage 

 cheese campaign inaugurated by the Department for the better utilization of 

 skim milk for human food. As an indication of the success of the campaign 

 it is stated that in one city the quantity of cottage cheese sold daily jumped 

 from 10 to nearly 3,000 lbs., and in another from S50 lbs. to more than a ton, 

 and that a creamery which formerly poured 10,000 lbs. of skim milk down the 

 sewer dally later turned it into 700 lbs. of cottage cheese. It Is pointed out 

 in conclusion that the extent to which cottage cheese will be used In the future 

 depends largely on its quality, and that the same attention should be paid to its 

 production and refrigeration as to that of other dairy products. 



The use of surplus milk in a small dairy: Cheese making, R. G. Allan 

 {Agr. Jour. India, 13 {1918), No. 4, pp. 628-638).— Successful methods of mak- 

 ing both soft and hard cheeses on a small scale from buffalo milk are reported 

 as the result of tests at the Agricultural College Experimental Dairy, Nagpur. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Some results of Federal quarantine against foreign live stock diseases, 

 G. W. Pope {U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1918, pp. 239-246, pis. 2). — A popular 

 summary of information on the results obtained through Federal quarantine. 



Report of the State veterinarian, M. Jacob {Bien. Rpt. Tenn. Dept. Agr., 

 1911-18, pp. lJf-44). — Included in this report is a discussion of disease investi- 

 gations, particularly control work with hog cholera. 



Annual report of the Bengal Veterinary College and of the civil veterinary 

 department, Bengal, for the year 1917-18, A. Smith {Ann. Rpt. Bengal Vet. 

 Col. and Civ. Vet. Dept., 1911-18, pp. [SO]).— This is the usual annual report 

 (E. S. R., 39, p. 582). 



Report of the government veterinary surgeon for 1918, G. W. Stubgess 

 {Ceylon Adrnin. Rpts. 1918, Sect. IV, pp. F1-F6). — The usual annual report 

 (E. S. R., 39, p. 787). 



Colloids in biology and medicine, H. Bechhold, trans, by J. G. M. Bullowa 

 {Neiv York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1919, pp. XIV +^64, pi. 1, figs. 70).— This Is a 

 translation of the second edition of this volume, the first edition of which has 

 been previously noted (E. S. R., 27, p. 881). 



A further note on the preparation of culture media suitable for the growth 

 of organisms used in vaccines, D, Norris {Indian Jour. Med. Research, 6 

 {1919), No. If, pp. 569-584). — This paper, in continuation of the Investigation 

 previously noted (E. S. R., 40, p. 667), reports the results of a study of the 

 essential conditions for optimum growth of Bacillus typlwsus on trj-psinized 

 media. 



