34 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



COOKE, PROF. WELLS W., 1328 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washing- 

 ton, D. C: 



1. ECONOMICAL FEEDING OF FARM STOCK. 



Cheap food; digestibility; relative value; balancing a ration; 

 work of digestion; standard ration. 



2. THE VALUE OF FARM MANURE AND HOW TO RETAIN 



IT. 



Value depends on animal and feed, liquid, solid, leaching, 

 heating, absorbents, land plaster, covered barnyard, spread- 

 ing on hillsides. 



3. THE EFFECT OF FEED ON THE QUANTITY AND QUAL- 



ITY OF MILK. 



Quality of milk, taste, smell, silage, arenation, per cent, of fat, 

 -quantity of fat, wet foods, kindness, testing. 



4. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CROP FERTILIZATION. 



Needs of crops, fertility in soils, heavy fertilization, losses, 

 cheap fertility, steady improvement. 



5. FEEDING FROM THE SILO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 



Silage cheapest food, good for summer and winter; using land 

 and silo twice a vear. 



6. FORAGE CROPS AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PASTURE. 

 Save land, increase crops, eradicate weeds, soiling directly 



from the field vs. indirectly through the silo. 



7. CARE AND FEEDING OF DAIRY STOCK. 



Healthfuluess, cleanliness, comfort, uniformity, balancing, di- 

 gestibility. 



8. HANDLING MILK AND BUTTER MAKING. 



Shallow setting, deep setting, separator, sweet cream butter, 

 churning, washing, salting, packing, selling. 



9. NATURE STUDY IN THE COUNTRY SCHOOL. 



Reasons for nature study, subjects taught, plant growth, insect 

 friends and foes. 



10. ECONOMICAL FEEDING OF THE FARMERS' FAMILY. 

 Economy in house and barn compared, average cost of food, 

 cheap food, expensive living, digestibility, variety, labor 

 question. 



COX, JOHN W., New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pa.: 



1. A FARMER'S PRACTICAL EDUCATION. 



The importance and value of an education and how the farmer 

 can secure an education most suited to his need. 



2. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER. 



The analysis and use of. 



3. MAINTAINING AND INCREASING THE FERTILITY OF 



THE SOIL. 

 The elements most likely to become exhausted in the soil and 

 how to supply them at the least expense. The importance of 

 vegetable matter or humus in the soil. 



