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the three receiving it cut and nwxcd with the meal, 205.2 pounds. 

 Whether or not the digestibility of the feed was affected by the manner 

 of feeding "it was not possible for us to determine, but the result of 

 the experiment indicates that it is best to feed corn meal and other 

 similar food which does not need remastication, before hay or other 

 coarse fodder, so that it may be allowed to pass to the third apartment 

 of the animal's stomach before the latter enters it." 



Kansas Station, Bulletin No. 16, December, 1890 (pp. 17). 



Experiments with sorghum and suaAR-BEETS, U. H. Failteb, 

 M. S., AND J. T. WiLLAKD, M. S. (pp. 135-149).— The experiments with 

 sorghum were in continuation of those reported in the Annual Iteports 

 of the station for 1888 and 1889 (See Experiment Station liecord, Vol. 

 ir, p. 339). The climatic conditions in 1890 were unfavorable to the 

 growth of sorghum or sugar-beets. The delicient rain-fall and intense 

 heat of the early summer were followed by cool, wet weather, culminat- 

 ing in an unprecedented killing frost, September 13. "This frost was 

 so excei)tional as to date and so erratic in distribution, its limits bear- 

 ing no relation to isotherms or latitude, that it gives no gronnd for the 

 conclusion that we are too far uorth for successful sugar manufacture 

 from sorghum." 



Sofffhiim, comparison of varieties (pp. 135-140). — Tabulated data on 

 the samples taken for analysis and on the results of the analysis are 

 given for twenty-one of the older varieties and for some thirty (princi- 

 pally foreign) varieties grown from seed derived from that sent to the 

 station by P. Collier, Ph. D,, in 1889. ^Notwithstanding the unfavorable 

 climatic conditions the standard varieties showed a good, though lower 

 sugar content. 



Sorghum, improvement by seed selection (pp. 140-143). — Tabulated data 

 are given tor analyses of si ngle stalks of eight varieties grown from seeds 

 obtained from the best stalks in 1889 ; and for analyses of thirteen vari- 

 eties grown from selected seed obtained from Sterling, Kansas. The 

 results of the station's experiments in seed selection of sorghnm for the 

 past three years (1888-90) are also summarized in a table. The results 

 in 1890 were as a rule inferior to those of previous j cars, but on the whole 

 the experiments thus far made "lend encouragement to the hope that 

 the standard of sugar content may be permanently raised by this means." 



Sorghum, trial n-ith fertilizers (pp. 143, 144). — Pernument plats were 

 staked off" in 1890 for a series of experiments with a view to improving 

 sorghum by the use of fertilizers and thorough cultivation. Lime, 

 superphosphate, nitrate of soda, sulphate of potash, and gypsum were 

 used singly and combined in a " complete" fertilizer. Tabulated 

 results of analyses of sorghum from each of the plats are recorded, but 

 owing to the unfavorable climatic conditions the experiments are not 

 considered satisfactory. They will be continued. 



