ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 73 



Commercial feeding stuffs, R. E. Stallings (Bui. Ga. Dept. Agr., No. 60 

 (litis), pp. 119, fig. 1). — This reports analyses of the following feeding stuffs: 

 Molasses feed, meat scrap, alfalfa uieal. dried-beet pulp, rice bran, rice polish, 

 tankage, crushed oats, proprietary mixed feeds, poultry and stock feeds, cotton- 

 seed meal, wheat shorts, wheat bran, wheat middlings, ship stuff, white shorts, 

 corn meal, com bran, hominy meal, and cracked corn. 



The text of the law regulating the sale of feeding stuffs is included, together 

 with rules and regulations relating to the law, standards of purity of grain as 

 adopted by the commissioner of agriculture and state chemist, grades for com- 

 mercial corn, definitions of feeds, etc. 



Feeding stuff inspection {Maine Sta. Off. Insp. 50 (1913), pp. 37-76).— 

 Analyses are reported of the following feeding stuffs: Cotton-seed meal, gluten 

 meal, linseed meal, distillers' grains, red dog flour, wheat middlings, bran, 

 hominy feed, and various mixed and proprietary feeds. 



The chief requirements of the Maine feeding stuffs law are enumerated. 



Tlie analysis and registration of commercial feedstuffs, L. A. Fitz (Kansas 

 Sta. Bui. 195 (1913), pp. 493-520) .—This bulletin gives a list of firms register- 

 ing feeds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, with guaranties, a table giv- 

 ing average analyses of mill products for the previous year, a discussion of 

 the state feeding stuffs law, and other data. 



Feeding stuffs, A. P. Sandles (Off. Rpt. Sec. Ohio Bd. Agr. on Feed Stuffs, 

 1912, pp. 128). — ^This reports analyses of the following feeding stuffs: Germ oil 

 meal, malt sprouts, cotton-seed meal, alfalfa meal, meat meal, hominy feed, 

 dried distillers' grains, tankage, molasses feeds, gluten feed, gluten meal, rice 

 meal, bran, chop, dried beet pulp, linseed meal, screenings, beef scrap, barley 

 sprouts, proprietary mixed feeds, etc. There are included definitions of the 

 various feeding stuffs, articles on screenings and their use, cotton-seed meal, 

 cereal milling offals, tankage, and other subjects relating to the feeding of ani- 

 mals. There is also given an index to manufacturers and dealers in feeding 

 stuffs, and the text of the Ohio feed stuffs law. 



Live stock of the United States (U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 575 (1914), 

 pp. 1-29, 34-39). — "The estimates for January 1, 1914, indicate that there are 

 20,962,000 horses and 4,449,000 mules in the United States, an average annual 

 increase of about 1.4 per cent over the number shown by the Census of 1910. 

 It is estimated that the average farm price of horses has increased from $108.03 

 in the census year to $109.32 in January, 1914, and in the case of mules from 

 $120.20 to $123.85 in the same period. On this basis the total farm value of 

 horses is $2,291,638,000 and of mules $551,017,000, . . . an increase of $194,082,000 

 over the census year and represents an annual increase of wealth from these 

 sources of $48,520,000. 



" The estimates indicate a slight increase in the number of milch cows since 

 the census year, equivalent to an increase of about 0.5 per cent, the estimated 

 number now being 20,737,000. On the other hand, the average farm price of 

 milch cows has increased from $35.29 in the census year to $53.94 in January, 

 1914, or an increase of 50.7 per cent. On this basis the farm value of milch 

 cows now in the United States is estimated at $1,118,487,000 as compared with 

 their estimated value in the census year of $727,802,000 . . . 



" With regard to meat animals, that is, ' other cattle,' sheep, and swine, the 

 estimates indicate a steady and fairly uniform decrease in the number of cattle 

 and sheep, a slight increase in the nmuber of swine, and a considerable increase 

 in the average farm price of cattle and swine since the census year of 1910. In 

 the case of cattle the number has decreased from 41,178.000 in the census year 

 to 35,855,000 in January, 1914 ... In the case of sheep the number is esti- 

 mated to have decreased from 52,448,000 in the census year to 49,719,000 



