WYOMING. 149 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 fund has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Department and has been approved. 



PT'RI.irATIOXS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal 

 year were Bulletins 114-126 and the Annual Report for 1904. The 

 bulletins are on the following subjects: A lesson in bovine tubercu- 

 losis; the quality of cheese as affected by rape and other green forage 

 plants fetl to dairy cows; on the relation of food to the production 

 of milk and butter fat by dairy cows; the relation of food to dairy 

 production; licensed commercial feeding stuffs, 1904; a report on 

 cranberry investigations; concentrated feeding stuffs and fertilizers 

 licensed for sale in "Wisconsin, 1905; alfalfa, or lucern; the beet- 

 sugar industry of Wisconsin; report on tobacco investigations in 

 Wisconsin for 1903 and 1904; silo construction; two ways of treat- 

 ing tuberculosis in herds. 



WYOMING. 



Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, Laramie. 



Department of the University of Wyoming. 



B. C. BuFFUM, M. S., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Wyoming Station made considerable progress during the past 

 year in concentrating and reorganizing its work more efficiently. 

 The good results reported by the station last year in its experiments 

 in feeding lambs peas have attracted attention and led ranchers to 

 take up this work, one ranchman putting in 400 acres of peas. Dur- 

 ing the past year a new series .of experiments in feeding lambs was 

 carried out. The more important results of these experiments were 

 that barley fed with alfalfa produced better results than the feeding 

 of corn with alfalfa, though the difference between the two grains 

 was slight; that corn combined with native hay is not a good ration; 

 that it is possible to use ground flaxseed from which the oil has not 

 been compressed in compounding practical feeding rations, and that 

 it is possible to fatten lambs without grain b}'^ the use of alfalfa, 

 turnips, and flaxseed. Spelt is also proving a fine crop for that 

 country. It gives a large yield of excellent feed. Experiuients are 

 being made with Tamworth pigs, raising them at that altitude on 

 home-grown feed, and comparing wheat with corn as a grain ration. 

 Wheat gave gains nearly twice as large as those from corn, both 

 grains being fed in equal amounts. Some experiments were con- 



