1. Carotene values are given for six well-known grasses, cut monthly from established plots under natural climatic conditions at Onderstepoort from August, 1938, to August, 1939. 2 . If the average bovine (800 lb. body ...

An apparently new form of conjunctivitis of the domestic fow1 has been described. No doubt the disease has been seen before and called “ocular roup”. The condition is confined to the structures of the eye. Transmission ...

Adler and Ellenbogen (1934) saw Eperythrozoa in blood smear from a splenectomized calf; these they named Eperythrozoon wenyoni. Similar parasites were observed independently by Neitz and Quinlan (1934) in smears from ...

1. Two groups of 10 merino ewes were fed the same adequate basal ration with the exception that one group received an addition of 0.05 gms. each daily of potassium iodide. 2. A slight depression of weight and greater ...

Cystine is determined as cysteine in hydrolysates of plant or biological material of low cystine content. This method is an improvement and also more accurate than the previous one described.

In the first paper of this series (de Waal, 1939) the isolation and chemical properties as well as the results of the preliminary hydrolysis and of the hydrogenation of the alkaloid isatidine were recorded. This alkaloid ...

In the foregoing the writer discusses five species of Cestodes and one species of Nematode; of the cestodes three species are considered as new and the species from the Hoepoe is assigned to a new genus Biuterinoides closely ...

(1) The chemical composition of grass pastures differs in many respects considerably from that of bush pastures. Especially is this the case in connection with the changes to which the composition of pastures are subject ...

1. It is believed that various outbreaks of swine fever in South Africa have probably occurred since 1900. The disease in domestic pigs produced by the blood of warthogs resembled the European disease. Probably in swine ...