1882.] AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS. 47 



ANIMALS. 



1. Is the digestive power of animals noticeably influenced by 

 the heredity of the animal ? Will a short-horn digest a larger per- 

 centage of his food supply, than a scrub ? 



2. Will a highly bred animal digest a coarser fodder as com- 

 pletely as a scrub ? Will a short-horn extract from coarse fodder 

 as much nutritive material as will a Texan ? 



3. Will an over-fed, fully fed, or under-fed animal digest the 

 largest percentage of their food supply ? 



4. Is the abundance of scurf on a milch cow an indication of 

 the quality of her butter yield, or a mark of the efficacy of the 

 food towards butter pi'oduction ? 



5. The influence of breed and feed upon the butter quality of 

 milk. 



PRODUCTS. 



1. To test digestibility of various samples of milk, with refer- 

 ence to the breed and feeding. 



2. To test the characters and digestibility of caseine, separated 

 by various precipitants from milk of various breeds. 



3. To test the action of soaking, fermentation, and boiling 

 upon the digestibility of cattle foods. 



4. The feeding value of damaged grain. 



5. The relations between quantity and. quality in feeding. 



SOIL. 



1. To test the value of subsoils. 



2. To test the value of a fallow. 



3. Evaporative powers of different mixtures of soil and kinds 

 of mixture. 



4. To show the effect of various mulches in conserving the 

 moisture of the soil. 



5. The value of tillage as a conserver of moisture, and the 

 conditions under which this function is performed. 



SEEDS. 



1. The germinating power of seeds of varieties of the same plant. 



Do the more improved varieties germinate as readily as the 

 less improved, and is there a difference in their relative 

 production of fertile seed ? 



2. The germinating power of seed from various portions of the 



cob in corn, or head in wheat. 



