IV CONTENTS. 



Tlie economic entomology of the sugar beet, S. A. Forbes and C. A. Hart 868 



Economic and biological notes on insects injurious to herbaceous crops in the 



Yalley of Bientina, G. del Guercio 865 



The effect of scale lice ujjon vegetable tissues, J. Kochs 865 



Injurious fruit insects; insecticides; insecticide ajiparatus, R. A. Cooley 869 



How to control the San Jose scale, C. L. Marlatt 869 



Economic and biological notes on Simxthis nemomna 866 



Observations on the development and use of the locust fungus in German 



southwest Africa, Rickmann and Kaesewurm 866 



FOOnS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Beans, peas, and other legumes as foods, Mary H. Abel 876 



Studies on the amount of nutrients required by man at rest, K. Elkholm 871 



On the elimination of nitrogen, sulphates, and phosphates, after the ingestion 



of proteid food, il. C. Sherman and P. B. Hawk 871 



Digestion trials, J. Fields and A. G. Ford 872 



Digestion experiments with sheep, J. M. Bartlett : . . 873 



A comparison of determined and calculated heats of combustion, L. H. Merrill . 873 

 Experiments on the influence of asparagin and ammonia upon the metabolism 



of protein in herbivora, O. Kellner et al 874 



Inspection of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs during 1900, W. H. Jordan 



and C. G. Jenter 877 



Analyses of commercial feeding stuffs, J. L. Hills, C. H. Jones, and B. 0. White. 877 



Methods of steer feeding, G. C. Watson and M. S. McDowell 875 



Principles and practices of stock feeding, J. L. Hills 877 



Feeding experiments, E. R. Lloyd 878 



Sheep-feeding experiments in Nebraska, E. A. Burnett 875 



Roots and other succulent foods for swine, C. S. Plumb 876 



Live stock; poultry, J. G. Lee 878 



Index relating to animal industry, 1837 to 1898, G. F. Thompson 878 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



Dairy husbandry, J. S. Moore 883 



Sugar-beet pulp as a food for cows, H. H. Wing and L. Anderson 878 



The liability of the total solids of milk to change with age and its effect in the 



control of market milk, A. Reinsch and H. Hihrig 879 



Studies of the market milk of Helsingfors, with special reference to its bkcteria 



content, O. von Hellens 879 



Preservatives in dairy produce, G. S. Thomson 879 



Composition of butter made in the Netherlands and conditions which control 



the changes in composition, J. J. L. Van Rijn 880 



The influence of certain conditions in churning on the amount of water in 



butter, J. B. Weems and F. W. Bouska 881 



The result of working on the w'ater content of butter, J. Siedel and Hesse 881 



The chemical action of molds on butter, J. Hanus and A. Stocky 882 



Cream testing, C. H. Eckles 882 



The source of separator slime, P. Vieth and I\I. Siegfeld 883 



A study of butter increasers, J. B. Weems and F. AV. Bouska 883 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 



Communications from the official veterinary sanitary reports for the year 1898, 



J. Esserand W. Schiitz ". '. 884 



Texas fever in the Argentine Republic 885 



Parturient apoplexy under Schmidt's treatment, J. H. Tennent 886 



