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sum have been sold as by-products of cereals. The sawdust is finely grouud 

 and mixed with gypsum to give it the appearance of having flour attaching to it. 



Some new feeding stuffs and their relative values as cattle foods, A. 

 Smetham {Roy. Lancashire Agr. Soc. Jour. 1909, pp. 28-45).— Analyses are 

 reported of soy-bean cake and meal, cotton-seed cake from China, Burma, and 

 West Africa, Japanese linseed cake and meal, Chinese rape-seed cake and 

 meal, Burma ground nut cake, Java beans, Indian dari, Guinea corn meal, 

 lentils, locust beans, coconut cake, copra cake, palm kernel meal, candle nut 

 cake, Para rubber nuts, tallow nuts, canary-seed cake, poppy-seed cake, peat 

 dust, hemp-seed cake, and other feeding stuffs. 



Registered feeding stuffs {Kansas Sta. Feeding Stuffs Buls. 1, pp. Jt; 2, pp. 

 4; 3, PP- 4)- — These bulletins contain the names of all feeds registered in the 

 State of Kansas for the year ending June 30, 1910, and a list of manufacturers 

 residing outside the State who have in previous years registered, but who have 

 not renewed their registration since July 1, 1909. They are the first of a 

 series of bulletins to be published monthly and to contain matters of interest 

 to the consumer and to the trade in concentrated feeding stuffs. 



Concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, F. W. Robison {Mich. State Dairy 

 and Food Dcpt. Bui. 161-163, pp. 16-30). — Analyses are reported of linseed 

 and cotton-seed meals, gluten feed, tankage, blood meal, pea and oat brans, 

 and chicken, molasses, and mixed feeds. The bulletin also contains extracts 

 from the Michigan feeding- stuffs laws. 



Inspection and analyses of commercial feeding stuffs, W. F. Hand et al. 

 {21ississii)pi Sta. Bid. 123, pp. 3-61). — This bulletin contains the text of the 

 feediug-stuff law, with comments thereon, besides general information on the 

 composition, value, adulteration, and use of commercial feeding stuffs, and other 

 data. Analyses are reported of rice bran and polish, wheat bran, middlings, 

 and shorts, corn chops, and proprietary and mixed feeds. 



Analyses of commercial feeding stuffs, B. L. Hartwell, J. F. Mokgan, and 

 L. F. Whipple {Rhode Island Sta. Bui. 13Jf, pp. 79-98). — Analyses are reported 

 of animal meal and beef scraps, cotton and linseed meals, gluten feed, malt 

 sprouts and brewers' grains, wheat bran and middlings, mixed and proprietary 

 feeds, provender and chop feeds, corn, oat, hominy and alfalfa meals, buckwheat 

 feed, dried beet pulp, and red dog flour. 



Foodstuffs and their deterioration, H. Gamble {Vet. Jour., 65 {1909), No. 

 Jfll, pp. 1/39-452, fig. 1 ) . — These are notes on the deterioration of feeds due to 

 bacteria, fungi, animal parasites, and other causes. Experiments are re- 

 ported on growing pure cultures of bacteria and molds found in linseed cake, 

 cotton cake, and maize. 



Abstracts of feeding experiments, B. L. Hartwell {Rhode Island Sta. Bui. 

 1311, pp. 6.J-78). — This is a continuation of the popular summary of recent 

 feeding experiments, previously noted ( E. S. R., 20, p. 567 ) . 



Experiments in feeding beef steers, J. A. McLean {Mississippi Sta. Bui. 

 121, pp. 12). — The objects sought in undertaking these experiments were to 

 determine (1) the feeding value of cotton-seed meal and hulls combined, when 

 fed (a) to 2-year old cattle, (b) to 1-year old cattle; (2) what amounts are 

 most desirable for daily rations; and (3) the profitableness of making beef on^ 

 meal and hulls. The experimental animals were of mixed Hereford, Shorthorn, 

 and Angus breeds. 



A lot of 22 2-year-olds fed a ration of cotton-seed meal and hulls made for 

 89 days an average daily gain per head of 2.06 lbs. at a cost of 6.49 cts. per 

 pound. The steers sold at $.5.65 and the heifers for .$5.25 per hundredweight. 

 Estimating them to be worth 34 cts. per pound at the beginning of the test 

 they would have given a total profit of $257.93. 



