774 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



Paris, 1910, pp. 71-155, figs. 6). — A summary of information on the nutritive 

 value and methods of preparing grape marc, prunings of vines, and other 

 products of tlie grape for feeding live stoelc. 



Filling the silo and the cost of silage, C. W. Pugsley {Hoard's Dairyman, 

 Jf2 (1911), No. 28, p. 858). — ^Directions for filling the silo and estimates of the 

 cost of filling are given. 



The author found that where it took 18 acres to fill 2 silos of 110 tons each, 

 with corn at GO bu. per acre, the cost of ensilage per ton was $2.59. Exper- 

 iences of others are cited to show the cost of filling to range from $1.95 to 

 $2.75 a ton. ^ 



Concentrated feeding stuffs, C. S. Cathcart et al. (Netc Jersey Stas. Bid. 

 237, pp. 3-56). — This is the reiwrt of the eleventh inspection of concentrated 

 feeding stuffs, and presents analyses of 630 samples of cotton-seed meal, cotton- 

 seed feed, linseed meal, mustard seed oil cake meal, gluten feed, distillers' 

 dried grains, dried brewers' grains, malt sprouts, molasses feed, alfalfa meal, 

 barley feed, dried beet pulp, granulated milk, meat meal, beef scrap, by-products 

 of corn, wheat, rye, oats, and buckwheat, and poultry and mixed feeds. 



Notice of Judgment (U. S. Dept. Agr., 'Notice of Judgment 990, pp. 11). — 

 This relates to the alleged misbranding of " Corno horse and mule feed." 



The high price of meat in Germany according to a recent inquiry: Its 

 causes and remedy by cooperative and other means (Internat. Inst. Agr. 

 [Rome], Bui. Bur. Econ. and Soc. Intel., 2 {1911), No. 5, pp. 2.'/.3-26// ) .— This 

 inquiry was ordered by the Minister of Agriculture because of the high price of 

 meat in 1910. The farmers have been accused of causing the increase, but 

 inquiry showed that although the number of cattle, calves, and sheep was 

 smaller in 1910 than in 1909, it was greater than the averages for the preceding 

 10 years, and that more pigs were marketed in 1910 than in any 5 of those 

 years. The increase in price was due largely to the increase of consumption of 

 meat per head of population. Suggestions are offered for increasing the home 

 production of live stock. 



Exports of Uruguay live-stock products, F, W. Goding {Daily Cons, and 

 Trade Rpts. [V. 8.], U, {1911), No. 180, pp. 522, 523).— This contains statistics 

 on the live stock industry and on the exports of live-stock products. 



Margarin in skim milk for fattening calves, A. Chiesi {Indus. Latt. e 

 Zootec., 9 {1911), No. 8, pp. 121, 122; abs. in Internat. Inst. Agr. [Rome], Bui. 

 Bur. Agr. Intel, and Plant Diseases, 2 {1911), No. ff, pp. 896, S97).— This is a 

 report of a successful experiment in the use of margarin as a substitute for 

 cream in skim milk. The average daily gain per head was 0.957 kg., and the 

 price realized for the skim milk excluding cost of labor was 8.27 francs per 

 quintal (about 1.5 cts. per quart). 



Breeding and feeding sheep, J, W. Wilson {South Dakota Sta. Bid. 127, 

 pp. 99-120, figs. 13). — This bulletin reports the result of 6 years' work, the object 

 of which was to ascertain which of 6 breeds of sheep is the best to use on the 

 western-bred ewe, both wool and mutton being considered. 



In the fall of 1904 60 western ISIontana-bred yearling ewes were divided into 

 6 lots. These were compactly built Merino and Down grades and were quite 

 uniform in size and conformation. Each of these lots was bred to an average 

 pure bred ram of the following breeds: Cotswold, Hampshire, Oxford, South- 

 down, Shropshire, and Rambouillet. In 1905, the ewes previously bred to the 

 Cotswold ram were bred to the Hampshire, the ewes bred to the Rambouillet 

 ram were bred to the Cotswold, and so on for each lot, changing the breed of 

 ram each year for each lot of ewes. 



The ewes lambed in April and May each year, and the lambs were allowed to 

 run with the ewes on blue grass pasture until early fall, when they were sepa- 



