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Peculiar injury to barley by Clorops Lrniopus, Wahl 59 



Katir corn aphis 59 



The a.«i)aragus beetles, Chittenden 59 



Screenins; for the protection of cabbage seed beds, Schoene 59 



Protecting cabliage plant beds from maggots, Hall 59 



Insects injurious to cranberries during 1907, Hardenburg and Malde 59 



Report on the work of the section for plant protection, 1906-7, Brick 60 



Does it pay to spray Nebraska apple orchards? Emerson and Denny 60 



The ajiple maggot or railroad worm, Quaintance 60 



The ir sect pests of peach trees, Lafont 60 



State nursery inspection, Moore 60 



Diseases and insect pests [of coffee], Van Leenhoff _ 61 



Individual and seasonal variations in Ifelopeltis theivora, Mann 61 



The coccidie attacking the tea plant in India and Ceylon, Green and Mann . . 61 



Means of com))ating cockchafers, von Tubeuf 61 



A new phytophagous mite with notes on other species, Hewitt 61 



Exj)eriments in tlie control of Tinea peUioneUn, Roussin 61 



Bee breeding, Green 62 



Queen rearing, Alexander 62 



Digestibility of mulberry leaves with relation to feeding of silkworms, Bucci. . 62 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Food chemistry, Varges 62 



The food chemist as an expert, Neufeld 62 



The peacock edible, Williams 63 



Analyses of canned sausage, Balland 63 



Analyses of canned fish, Maljean 63 



A new method of preserving meat, de Lapparent 63 



Slaughtering and meat packing 63 



Meat inspection, Toubeau 63 



Pasteur's theory applied to diastatic action in bread making, Serand 63 



Survival of pathogenic bacteria in bread after baking, Roussel 63 



Studies of the flour, bread, and Italian pastes sold in Venice, Zoso 63 



Cultivation of cassava and manufacture of flour in Sao Paulo, Sobrinho 63 



Flour and grist mill products, Ellsworth 64 



Starch, Merriam 64 



Bacteriological studies of field-grown vegetables from Moscow, Kozyn 64 



The soy bean as a feeding stuff in Italy, Ruata and Testoni 64 



The nutritive value of the avocado, Garcia 64 



Some observations on the date, Vinson 64 



The quantity of fatty substance in some samples of olive flesh, Passerini 64 



Some Algerian olive oils, II, Archbutt 65 



Composition of cocoanut milk and the diastases of Cocos mucifera, de Kruyff . . 65 



Adulteration of cola nut and preserved truffles 65 



Edilile oil from satflower seed, Houghton and Mudaliar 65 



Alcohol-free beverages, Mezger ■ 65 



Analyses of white wines at the National School of Agriculture, Kirschbaum. . 65 



Statistics of Swiss wines for the year 1906 : 65 



Port wine and the vineyards f)f the Alto Douro 65 



Institutions for examination of foods in German Empire, Konig and Juckenack . 65 



Food inspection decisions 65 



Food and drug inspection, Leach 65 



Housekeeping in Egypt, Williams 65 



How a five-cent lunch is cooked and served at Honolulu Normal School, Bell. 66 



School lunches 66 



Vegetaljle products [of northern Nigeria] 66 



Diet in Inclo-China, Kermorgant 66 



Diet of the poor and its social significance, Rubner 66 



Hygiene in relation to nutrition and physiology, Reiss 66 



Influence of food on experimental tuberculosis, Lanne-Longue et al 66 



Recent dietetic experiments, Kellogg 67 



Physiological economy in nutrition. A different explanation, Haig 67 



Relation Vjetween uric acid and heat production, Cathcart and Leathes 67 



Investigations on purin bodies, 1882-1906, Fischer 67 



Has a purin-f ree dietary an j'^ special therapeutic value? Watson 67 



The behavior of nonfernientable carbohydrates in the animal body, Brasch. . . 67 



