1068 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



" Heavy shrinkage during shipment, clue to unusual delays, greatly reduced 

 the possible profits. 



" The average selling price of grades in New Orleans ranged between $3.97 

 (for the pen fed on corn stover, cotton-seed meal, and corn-aud-cob meal) and 

 $4.42 (for the pen feed on cotton-seed meal and hulls). 



" Of the eight rations fed the following were the most profitable at prices 

 assumed: (1) Cotton-seed meal and hulls; (2) two-thirds cotton-seed meal, 

 one-third corn-and-cob meal, with cotton-seed hulls as roughage. With cotton- 

 seed meal at $20 a ton, hulls were worth in these experiments from $4.G2 to 

 $5.82 per ton. Inferior sorghum fodder and corn stover were worth less than 

 hulls. . . . 



" The scrubs dressed out 54.3 per cent as compared with 57.2 per cent for 

 grades fed on a similar ration. 



" In percentage of dressed weight the best showing was made by the steers 

 fed on cotton-seed meal and hulls, and the poorest by those fed on corn stover 

 or on sorghum fodder. The steers receiving mixed hay ranked lower in per- 

 centage of dressed weight than those fed on hulls and higher than those fed on 

 sorghum or corn stover." 



Artificial feeding of calves, L. Misson (Rev. Agi: [Sao Paulo], 13 (1907), 

 No. Ui'h VP' 325-33Jf, figs. 3). — The gradual substitution of skim milk, cooked 

 with some starchy material, for whole milk gave satisfactory results in calf 

 feeding. Corn meal, cassava meal, or a good quality of wheat bran is recom- 

 mended for supplementing skim milk. Data are given regai'ding the quanti- 

 ties fed and gains made by a number of calves. 



Calf feeding, A. Gouin and P. Andouard {Bui. Soc. Nat. Agr. France, 67 

 (1907), No. 6, pp. 504-508, 551-555). — General deductions from experimental 

 data previously reported (E. S. R., 19, p. 468). 



Feeding inverted starch to calves, R. Hanne (Milch. Ztg., 36 (1907), No. 

 23, pp. 267, 268). — From a feeding test reported the author concludes that starch 

 inverted with diastasolin may be used in place of fat to supplement skim milk in 

 calf feeding and that it gives satisfactory results. 



Diastasolin in feeding calves, A. Dolscius (Deut. Landw. Presse, 34 (1907), 

 No. 85, p. 671). — According to the feeding test which the author briefly reports, 

 satisfactory results were obtained when a vegetable fat (as contained in linseed 

 cake) and starch, inverted with diastasolin, supplementing skim milk were com- 

 pared with whole milk. 



Experiments at Proskau Dairy Institute on feeding pigs with starch 

 inverted with diastasolin, Klein (Milch. Ztg., 36 (1907), No. 39, p. 461).— 

 Experimental data are briefly reported which led to the conclusion that some- 

 what better results were obtained with the inverted starch than with untreated 

 starch or potato flakes. 



Feeding tests with different sorts of dried potatoes and dried beet chips, 

 RosENFELD (Landhotc, 1907, No. 38; Ztschr. Sinritusindtis., 30 (1907), No. 42, 

 pp. 456, 457). — In the experiments with pigs which are reported, the most satis- 

 factory results as regards cost of production were obtained with dried potato 

 chips. Potato flakes were more readily eaten, the author states, than potato 

 chips or beet chips. 



Sheep farming in America, J. E. Wing (Chicago, 1907, rev. ed., pp. 367, 

 pis. 26, figs. 34). — A new and revised edition of this handbook in which flne 

 wool breeds, mutton breeds, cross breeding, selection of sheep, feeding, care, and 

 management, washing, shearing, marketing, diseases of sheep, and related ques- 

 tions are considered. The volume also contains a chapter on Angora and milch 

 goats. 



