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rating the pork at 4.5 to (5.5 cts. per poniul. The average weight of the pigs 

 when sold was 190.9 lbs. each. 



" Comparing the prices obtained for feed in these experiments, wnth prevail- 

 ing market prices for feed in ordinary years, we mnst admit that even if sold 

 at 4J cts. per ponnd, these hogs wonld retnrn fair values for feed consumed, 

 and at 5 cts. per pound they would return more than ordinary market prices for 

 feed consumed. 



" It is not often that hogs have sold at less than 5 cts. per pound during late 

 years, and since the usual price for hogs has been considerably above 5 cts. per 

 pound, we must conclude that selling farm products in the form of finished hogs 

 is generally a profitable method of disposing of them. 



" While it is a bad thing for a farmer to be overstoclced with hogs, yet there 

 is an important place for hogs upon most farms, and especially upon those farms 

 where dairy by-products are available." 



Pig-feeding tests with different quantities of skim, milk and an otherwise 

 uniform ration, J. Klein {Dent. Tjtiuhr. Prcssc, ,'?.'/ (1907), No. 67, p. 5-'i2). — A 

 brief account of feeding smaller quantities of milk with and without fish meal 

 in comparison with larger amounts showed that practically the same results 

 were obtained with the smaller quantity as with the larger under the experi- 

 mental conditions. 



Beans in horse feeding, M. IIasquin (Jour. >S'oc. A(jr. Brnhant cf Hainniif, 

 52 (1907), No. .'i7, pp. il2-'i, 1125). — The author gives data regarding the ex- 

 tensive use of beans in horse feeding and other information on this topic. 



Milk in horse feeding, L. Grandeau (Jour. Agr. Prat., n. srr., 13 (1907), No. 

 23, pp. 713, 71.'i). — The author discusses data on the comiwsition and feeding 

 value of dried skim milk, which he states has been found to be a satisfactory 

 feeding stuff for horses. 



Poultry work at government expense (ReJ. Poultry Jour., 13 (1906), Nos. 

 7, pp. 6S5, 701, fig. 1; S, pp. 760-762, 782-78), figs. 6; 9, pp. 856-858, 869-871, 

 figs. 10; 10, pp. 968-971, figs. 8; 11, pp. 1065-1067, figs. 6; l.'t (1907), Nos. 5, 

 pp. J186-J188, 516, figs. 3; 7, pp. 609, 610, figs. .J).— A series of articles by different 

 authors summarizing data regarding the jionltry work at the State and pro- 

 vincial agricultural colleges and experiment stations of the United States and 

 Canada. 



Poultry (Dcpt. Agr. Orange River Coiony Ann. Rpt., 3 (1906-7), pp. .'i9- 

 51). — An account of the poultry kept at the Tweespruit Experimental Farm, 

 and brief notes on the gains made and the profits obtained in fattening chick- 

 ens on different rations. 



Making poultry pay, E. C. Powell (New York, 1907, pp. XII+307, pi. 1, figs. 

 118). — Feeding, care, and management of poultry, natural and artificial incu- 

 bation, enemies, diseases, and related questions are considered in this general 

 work on poultry feeding. There are also chapters on waterfowl, ducks, guinea 

 hens, jieafowl, i)igeons, and squab raising. 



Poultry experiments — a record of six hundred hens, J. H. Stewart and 

 H. Atwood (West Virginia Sta. Bui. 115, j)p. 199-210, pis. 6). — Records were 

 kept of the foods eaten and eggs laid in a year by GOO Single Comb White Leg- 

 horn pullets kept in a curtain front poultry house divided into compartments 

 and fed dry mash from hoppers. On an average the hens consumed 60 lbs. per 

 head of grain, beef scrap, and ground fresh meat and bone and about 5 lbs. of 

 oyster shells and grit during the year, the calculated cost of the feed being 89 

 cts. per head. 



" During the year 9 per cent of the fowls died from roup or other diseases. 

 The fowls averaged 113 eggs each. It is possible that this somewhat low egg 

 production could have been increased l»y some other system of feeding, but 



