MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION" I9IT 283 



found by experience that if rolled oats are mixed with the other 

 materials of the mash before scalding there is a tendency for 

 the mash to be soggy after it is wet. Mixing in the way here 

 outlined has been found to improve the mash greatly. 



Dry Mash. (Used from 3 weeks to 6 or 8 weeks.) 



Part by weight. 



Wheat bran 2 



Corn meal 3 



Linseed meal 1-2 



Daisy flour * i 



Beef scrap i 



From this time on the composition of the mash is varied to 

 suit the needs of the birds, as indicated by their sta^e of de- 

 velopment. 



Green Food. 



For chicks up to 3 weeks of age — the tops of green sprouted 



oats, chopped fine. 

 From 3 weeks on — rape, or clover, or corn fodder cut as fine 



as necessary with fodder cutter. 



WORK WITH PLANTS. 



Beans. 



During the year experiments were begun looking to the im- 

 provement of the old fashioned yellow-eyed bean. If this bean 

 could be bred so to be disease-resistant and at the same time 

 improved in yield, it would be one of the most valuable crops 

 which could be grown in Maine. The old fashioned yellow- 

 eye is one of the best, if not the best, baking beans known. The 

 demand for it in Eastern markets always exceeds the supply. 



At Highmoor in 191 1 nearly 200 pedigree lines of these 

 beans were grown. They are now being studied in the labor- 

 atory. A number of very protnising lines have been found, 

 and wall be propagated on a larger scale next year. 



Variety Tests of Oats. 



In 191 1 the oat variety tests were continued at Highmoor. 

 It was a very unfavorable season and the yields fell off consid- 

 erably from the year before. 



Or other low grade flour. 



