The Genetics of the Domestic Fowl. Memoirs of the Anikowo Genetical Station, 1926, Abstracted by L. C. Dunn, Storrs Agr. Exp. Station from the translation of B. F. Glessing. Journal of Heredity, Organ of the American Genetic Association, Nov. 1928 and March 1929.

Contents:

The nomenclature of the Genes, A Short Description of the Genes of the Domestic Hen, The Genestics of Color, Classification of the Genes, The Genetics of Leg Feathering, Types of Leg Feathering, Inheritance of Heel Tufts, Inheritance of Recessive Leg Feathering (Pavloff type) Inheritance of 1002 Type Leg Feathering, Dominant Leg Feathering (Faverolle Type), Pavloff-Faverolle Cross, Leg Feathering in Orloffs, Leg Feathering in a Family of Bantams, Leg Feathering among Progeny of Male 612, Leg Feathering in Brahma Wyandotte Cross.

New Pullorum (B. W. D.) Test Easy to Use on Breeders. Poultry Tribune for December, 1929.

Farmers and breeders who have desired to test their flocks for pullorum disease (B. W. D.), but have delayed because of the expense and time required by the agglutination test, may find their way out in the new simplified form of this test which has been developed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Protein Changes in Fish Meal when fat has been extracted by trichlorethylen by Dr. J. C. de Ruyter de Wildt. Rijkslandbouwproefstation, Hoorn, Holland, 1929.

In the former communication it was shown that when the fat is extracted from fish meal by trichlorethylen, the feeding value of the fish meal has been decreased and we have started the idea that not only the diminution of the fat content has caused this decrease, but perhaps a protein change too.

The Secretion of Uric Acid by the Fowl, by O. S. Gibbs, Physiological Abstracts, 1929, p. 302.

The bird's kidney can be perfused through the urether. Fluids enter the kidney as high as Bowman's Capsule. The pressure required is low. True selective absorption of such fluids was not demonstrated. After a short time the uric asid secreting mechanism becomes injured. It is inferred therefore that tubular absorption is not normal, though it can occur. The secretion pressure in the fowl's kidney is 10-20 c.M. of water. It is considered that uric acid is actively secreted by the bird's kidney, while water is probably filtered off by the glomeruly.