II CONTENTS. 



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Estimation of butter and coconut fat in margarin, Blichfeldt 213 



Constituents of coco butter; composition of coconut oil, Haller and Lassieur... 213 



Determining lactic acid quantitatively, von Furth and Charnass 213 



Estimation of salicylic acid by distillation of its aqueous solutions, Cassal 214 



Estimation of the ash in cane sugar, fillers, and sirups, Trenkler 214 



Temperature correction in estimating dry substance in sugar products, Stanek. . 214 



Decomposition products of glucose in cane sugar molasses, Prinsen Geerligs. . . 214 



Standards for mixed molasses feeds, Neubauer 214 



Standards for mixed molasses feeds 215 



A moisture tester for grain and other substances and how to use it, Duvel 215 



An asculin and fat-splitting enzym in J^sculus hippocastanum, Sigmund 215 



The drying of cider apples, Warcollier 215 



[Manufacture of apple and pear brandy], Warcollier 215 



Methods of extracting olive oil, Bracci 215 



Manufacture of milk sugar, Nilsson and Hellquist 215 



[Potassium cyanid from molasses waste], Brittain 215 



METEROLOGY — WATER. 



Dry farming in relation to rainfall and evaporation, Briggs and Belz 215 



[Meteorological observations], Feilden 216 



The water supply of the earth, Halbfass 216 



The importance of subterranean water to agriculture and forestry, Keilhack. . . 216 



Influence of the forest on the underground waters, Morozov 216 



Recent contributions to the study of desert water supplies, Grabham 216 



On the creation of an artificial water table in Egypt, Ferrar 216 



An artificial water table, Lucas 217 



The ground-water level, Haedicke 217 



The iron content of drainage water, Haas 217 



On the suspended matter in water of the Java rice fields, Mohr 217 



The water of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Bradley 217 



Water supply of eastern Virginia, Jeffers 217 



The purification of muddy waters, Rothera 217 



A study of farm water supplies, Kellerman and Whittaker 218 



Hypochlorite treatment of public water supplies, Johnson 218 



Sterilization of large quantities of water by ultraviolet rays, Henri et al 218 



Some profitable methods of utilizing municipal waste, Wilkinson 218 



Sewage disposal, Ramsay 218 



SOILS^FERTILIZERS. 



[Papers on soils and soil investigations] 218 



The First International Agrogeological Congress, Russell 221 



The Mkatta plains, Vageler 221 



The control of blowing soils. Free and Westgate 221 



On methods of bacteriological soil investigations, Vogel 221 



A study on nitrogen transformation in soils, Kriiger 222 



Legume inoculation and the litmus reaction of soils, Kellerman and Robinson. . 222 



Studies in soil oxidation, Schreiner, Sullivan, and Reid 223 



Some biochemical investigations of Hawaiian soils, Peck 224 



^liitney 's new theory of soil fertility, Krische 224 



Fertilizers, Fritsch 224 



Nitrogen content and yield with different nitrogenous manures, Hartwell et al. . 225 



Availability of certain unusual nitrogenous manures, Hartwell and Pember 225 



Sodium nitrate as compared with ammonium sulphate, Brehmer 226 



Comparative fertilizer experiments with lime nitrogen, Buchner 226 



Transformation of calcium cyanamid in arable soil, Ulpiani 226 



The utilization of atmospheric nitrogen, ('rossley 226 



The utilization of peat in agriculture, Haskins 227 



A new nitrogen-containing fertilizer produced in electric furnaces, De Nansouty . 227 



Our greatest plant food, Mitchell 227 



The three horizons of tricalcium phosphate in Algeria and Tunis, Roussel .... 227 



Thomas slag: A short historical re\'iew, Lindsey 227 



The effect of gypsum on alkali in soils, Sutherst 227 



The composition of seaweed and its use as manure, Russell 227 



The incineration of garbage to produce an ash fertilizer, d' Althoff 227 



