374 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



[Lamb shearing experiments in New Zealand] (Jour. New Zeal. Dcpt. 

 Agr., 1 (IDJO), No. 3, pp. 2J7 ; abs. in Intemat. Inst. Affi: [Rome], liul. Bur. Agr. 

 Intel, and. Plant Diseases, ID 10, Nov., p. 123). — Twenty lambs were divided into 

 2 lots, one lot of which was shorn. At the end of (> months the nnshorn lot had 

 gained in weight 35 lbs. more than the other, and at the end of J) months 75 

 lbs. Later, when the 2 lots were shorn, the unshorn lot gave an average of 

 2.1 lbs. more wool "than the other. 



Corn, soy-bean pastures, tankage and cotton-seed meal for fattening 

 hogs, D. T. Gray, J. W. Ridgway, and E. II. Eudaly (Alabama Col. 8ta. Bui. 

 IS-'t, pp. Ji5-87, figs. Hi). — A report of 3 years' work in feeding 105 hogs in order 

 to determine (1) the value of soy-bean pasture as compared with other feeds, 

 (2) the most profitable amount of corn to be fed as a supplement, and (3) the 

 effect of soy-bean forage on the quality of the pork. 



When corn was used alone the average daily gain for each hog was 0.375 lb. 

 at a cost of 7.61 cts. When a soy-bean pasture was grazed with a one-fourth, 

 one-half, and three-fourths ration of corn the average daily gains were raised, 

 to 1.102, 1.006, and 1.329 lbs., respectively, and the cost of the pork reduced to 

 2.59, 3.36, and 3.17 cts. per pound, respectively. One acre of soy-bean pasture 

 afforded grazing for 10 hogs for 43 days when a one-fourth ration of corn was 

 fed, 48 days on a one-half-ration of corn, and 62 days on a three-fourths ration 

 of corn. The total value of iiork made on each acre of soy-beau pasture varied 

 from $25.84 to $39.13. 



Tankage and cotton-seed meal proved to have about equal feeding value, as 

 supplements to corn in the dry lot. It proved profitable to enclose the hogs in a 

 dry lot after the pasture crops were exhausted and to feed for a short time on 

 grain. 



A summary of Bulletin 143. previously noted (E. S. R., 20, p. 569), is included. 



Origin of the Clydesdale and other heavy breeds of horses, J. C. Ewabt 

 (Trans. Highland and Agr. /Soc. Scot., 5. ser., 23 (1911), pp. I'jl-Kii), figs. 16). — 

 From studies of the skulls, teeth, limbs, etc., of fossil and living horses, the 

 author concludes that the modern heavy English breeds have been the result of 

 a blend, in most cases of 3 distinct wild races, namely (1) a large, robust, 

 broad-browed race, with a straight or dished face, and with stout limbs 

 adapted for a forest life; (2) a race in build not unlike certain modei-n thor- 

 oughbreds, characterized by a face bent downward on the cranium, a prom- 

 inence between the eyes, long limbs, well-laid shoulders, high withers, and a 

 high set-on tail; and (3) a race highly specialized for a steppe life, character- 

 ized by a long, narrow face, and, as in many steppe forms, by large nasal 

 chambers (which imply a "Roman nose"), by clean limbs, close hocks, and a 

 wonderful power of clearing obstacles. 



Breeding horses for the United States Army (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Anim. 

 Indus. Circ. 178, pp. 13). — The information contained in this circular is taken 

 from the report of the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for 1910, 

 previously noted (E. S. R., 25, p. 95). It is claimed that the supply of horses 

 fit for army remounts has become so limited as to make it necessary for the 

 Government to encourage the breeding of army horses. A brief outline is given 

 of the plan proposed for the purchasing of stallions and the proposed method of 

 breeding. 



The Braekel hen, L. Vandeb Snickt (Chasse et Peclie, 29 (1910), No. 5, p- 

 98; abs. in Intemat. Inst. Agr. [Rome'\, Bui. Bur. Agr. Intel, and Plant Dis- 

 eases, 1910, Nov., p. 133). — An account of a breed of fowls known in France as 

 the Braekel and in England as the Campine. 



