172 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



cotton-seed meal, wheat bran, cottonliead bay {FralicJua fioridana) . kudzu viue 

 stems, corn and velvet bean cho])s, and many mixed feeds. 



Inspection of commercial feed stuffs, P. H. Smith and P. \. Goldsmith 

 (Massachusetts 8ta. Bui. 128, pp. 3-56).— This bulletin contains analyses of 

 commercial feeding stuffs found in tbe Massachusetts markets during the year 

 3908, together with such comments as are called for by the results of the inspec- 

 tion. The principal products analyzed were cotton seed, linseed, corn, Kafir 

 corn, hominy, and alfalfa meals, rice, flax, gluten, and molasses feeds, distillers' 

 and brewers' grains, malt sprouts, wheat bran and middlings, meat scrap.s, poul- 

 try and mixed feeds. Attention is called to the growing tendency on the part of 

 the manufacturer of certain feeding stuffs to incorporate in the products weed 

 seeds, grain screenings, and other low-grade material. 



Under the title, The Dairyman and the Grain Problem, J. B. Lindsey suggests 

 grain rations that may be used for milk production. There is a tabulated list 

 of the wholesale cost of feeding stuffs for the year. 



Composition of feeding stuffs on the Canadian market, F. T. Shutt 

 {Ottaini: Govt., 1909, pp. 21-.'i2). — Analyses of corn, wheat, oat and pea prod- 

 ucts, cotton-seed and linseed meals, flax refuse, molasses feeds, and other feed- 

 ing stuffs are reported. 



The feeding of cotton-seed meal and hulls, A. M. Soule {Columbia, 8. C. 

 [1908], pp. 51, figs. 12). — This is a popular exposition of the use of cotton-seed 

 meal and hulls as feeds for stock, and includes the results of many feeding 

 tests with cattle, sheep, and hogs which were made at various State experiment 

 stations. 



A successful poultry and dairy farm, W. J. Spillman {U. 8. Dept. Agr., 

 Farmers" Bui. 355. pp. -'fO. figs. 7). — This bulletin describes in detail the methods 

 practiced on a farm in Jefferson County, Washington, which was hewn out of 

 the timber by the owner and his family and farmed by them for IS years prac- 

 tically without outside help. 



The jn-incipal products sold are l)utter, eggs, and poultry. At the present time 

 33 cows and 700 hens are kept. About 35 to 40 hogs are butchered each year. 

 The principal crops raised are potatoes, roots, wheat, clover, English rye grass, 

 rye, barley, and oats. No corn is grown as it does not do well under the pre- 

 vailing conditions. Clover and English rye grass are the main silage crops. On 

 the drier fields orchard grass is sown instead of rye grass. Peas and oats were 

 formerly used for silage, but the past few years the peas have failed. Experi- 

 ments with vetch as a substitute for peas have been made, and it has been 

 found satisfactory. One year the silo was filled with barley on account of a 

 failure with peas. A neighboring farmer makes silage of barley without a silo 

 by simply covering the green material with IS in. of earth. The annual income 

 from this farm of SO acres is about $5,000. 



Experiments in raising- calves, PI. Thiel (Landtc. Jahrh., 37 {1908), Ergdn- 

 zungsh. 3, pp. 228-235). — Feeding experiments with proprietary calf feeds are 

 reported. Three years' experience with denatured starch have proved it to be 

 a useful substitute for milk fat in calf raising. 



The breeding tendencies of the black spotted low-country cattle in the 

 Province of Posen, Z. Jeszykowski {Die Zuchterfolge des 8ehwarzhunten 

 Niedcruugsriiidcs in der Proviiiz Pqsen. Inaug. Diss., Univ. Breslau, 1907, pp. 88, 

 figs. 3; ahs. in Miiehw. Zeiithl., J, (1908). A'o. 12, p. 5.'fl).— The agricultural and 

 cattle industry of Posen is briefly described. Fi-om measurements of 07 ani- 

 mals of the Oldenburg breed and of 5!> of the East Friesian, the author finds 

 that since their introduction into the I'rovince of Posen these breeds have been 

 somewhat reduced in size and approach more closely the form of a general- 

 purpose animal than the original stock. 



