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In dry-lot feeding, ground wheat, dry, produced more rapid 

 and more economical gains than ground wheat, wet, or whole 

 wheat, soaked ; but did not quite equal ground wheat and digester 

 tankage, 14 to 1, in rapidity of gain or amount of gain for food 

 fed, while the cost was practically the same. Returns would evi- 

 dently have been nuich better had the pigs been on pasture, since 

 the gains, etc., were better than with the lot fed corn meal and 

 distillers' grains in the dry lot in the preceding experiment. 



Composition and value of certain feed materials. (Mass. 158.) 

 Molassine meal appeared to be of value only because of the mo- 

 lasses it contains, the moss basis being largely indigestible. The 

 meal, as a whole, is noticeably inferior to corn or other cereals. 

 Cows on a corn-meal ration produced 16 per cent more solids and 

 fat than on a molassine meal ration. 



The quality of the cotton seed products on the Massachusetts 

 market shows a constant deterioration, averaging 6 per cent less 

 in protein in lOl-l than ten years before, while some low-grade 

 goods contained nearly one-third less digestible matter than those 

 of high-grade, due -to admixture of hulls. Such adulteration not 

 only decreases the amount of protein in the feed, but lowers its 

 digestibility, making the material of even less value than analysis 

 would indicate. 



Cocoa shells were found to have a feeding value about one-half 

 that of corn meal. 



Grain screenings, if reasonably free from dirt, chaff, straw and 

 an excess of noxious seeds, and if finely ground, have a feeding 

 value approximating wheat bran. 



Flax shives must be considered an adulterant of feeds, as they 

 contain only a small amount of digestible matter and little protein, 

 while the large amount of fiber requires much energy for its 

 passage through the animal. 



]\Iellen's Food Refuse has feeding value only three-fourths that 

 of wheat bran. 



C. X. X. Feed, presumably a refuse from the preparation of 

 Instant Postum, is of very inferior feeding value. 



DAIRYING 



Experiments with Sharpies milker. (Ky. 186.) This is a 

 preliminary report upon this machine after one year's work with 



