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ill tlie cultivation and production of the disease hy inoculations from 

 different organs of diseased cattle and tlie manure of Southern eatth>, 

 gave negative results. Further ex]ieriments failed to show any partic- 

 iilar bacterium as the cause of the disease. The intracorj)uscnlar bod 

 ies, first described by Dr. T. Smith of the Burciiu of Animal Industry 

 of this Departmeut, were observed by the author in materials from the 

 spleen and kidneys. 



Experiments with s^^'EET potatoes. 1{. L. IJennett, 1>. S. (pp. 

 123-12S), — These were at the branch stati(»n at Newport, Arkansas. The 

 yields of !» varieties tested on saiid.N soil in ISIK) are given, together 

 with a tabulated reotid of the clieiiiical coiii|tosilioii of the tubers and 

 vines of the varieties tested, as determined liy the station chemist, 

 and brief tabulated recor<ls of experimi-nts with fertilizers, on high rs. 

 low culture, and on the effect of the removal of the vines «>n the yield 

 of tubers. Tile best results were obtained in the use of kainit and low 

 eullnre. The yiel«l (b'creased 44. .5 bushels per acre where tlie \ines 

 were remo\-ed. 



EXPKIflMKNT.S Willi (JKASSKS ANU LKlJl MKS, K. L. JlEN.NETT, !*.. 



S. (i>i>. lliO, I.JO). — A brief aeeount of 2 year.s' tests of ',i'^ varieties of 

 grasses and legumes on the sandy soil of the branch station at Newport. 

 None of the plants tested could be ]»rolitably gr<»\Mi for hay witiiout a 

 lilteial nse of lertilizeis. "Oichaid grass, timothy, tall fescue, tall 

 meatlow oat grass, Kentucky blue grass, alfalfa, redtop. im-adow fescue, 

 and IJermuda glass ha\ ing succeeded better than others, are being fur- 

 ther cxperinienied witli by the api)li«'ation of fertilizers." 



Field peas, IL \j. IJennett, 15. S. (|>i). KJU-i;^;?). — IJrief notes on 

 1) varieties of peas, an«l a table showing the comjiarative feeding \ allies 

 of pea hay, timothy liay, and milh't. 



FEE1)IN(t EXl'EKIMENT AVITII STEEKS. \l. L. DENNETT, U. S., AM) 



A. E. MenivE, 1). Sc. (pp. i:?4-14(;).— The chief object of this experinu'iit 



was "■ to determine the ctfects, if any, of c<»tt(Ui-seed jtioducts, variously 

 (■(tmbined. u|)on the tpiality of tlie tlesli and fat" when used for fatten- 

 ing animals for beef. I^lexcn range steers, from 1' to 2^ years old, and 

 varying in weight from ."iiio t<» T'.L' ]»ounds, were fi'd in stalls for a period 

 of IK> days, as follows: 



Lot 1, cotton-seed meal and cotton seed hulls. 



Lot 2, corn and i)ea-vine hay. 



Lot 3, cotton-seed meal, cottonseed hulls, and jx'a vine hay. 



Lot 4, cotton seed, cotton-seed hulls, and ]»ea vine hay. 



Lot 5, cotton seed and pea vine hay. 



The rations Avere the same in kind throughout the trial, but the 

 amount fed was regulated by the individual ai^ix-tites. At the close of 

 the exi»eriment the animals were immediately shijijied to the Armour 

 racking Comjiany at Kansas City, Missouri, where they were slaugli 

 tered under the supervision of the station. The <'om])any dcteiniined 

 the dressed weight, the weight of tallow and of rendered tallow, and 



