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the meUiii^y point of the tiillow, ;iii(l also iiuulc cnrclul cxaiiiiiijitioiis of 

 tlio <iiiality of the beef and taUow Iroui eacli animal. These data arc 

 re])oite(l, to.u'ether with slateinents of the amount and cost of the tbod 

 consumed by each animal, the total j;ain in live weight, the cost of 

 food per pound of live weight gained, and analyses of each of the feed- 

 ing stuiVs. Ditfcrences due to individuality were very noticeable in 

 animals of the same lot, so that exact conclusions as to the relative 

 etfects of the dili'crent rations are imi)ossible. The cost of food per 

 pound of gain, not taking the value of the nninure into account, was 

 lowest in the case of lot 1 (cotton-seed meal and hulls), lot -1 (cotton 

 seed, cotton-seed hulls, and i)ea-viuc hay) ranking second in this 

 respect. The cost was highest with lot 2 (corn an<l pea-vine hay), being- 

 more than two and a half times as large as with lot 1. 



Tlicrc \\ ;is no (lin'i-rciicc in ;i1)|(c:ii:hi(c due 1o tin- loud lu-t wccii iht; lot feci cottoii- 

 sct'd inoiil iiiid c-ottou luills and (lie lot fed corn and i)i'a-viue hay. * * ' Siini- 

 niiiijL? Ill) tho data obtained from tin' fcodiiig and .slaiiglit(rin<r of the (■levi-ii slccrs, 

 tlie I'ctnclusion is that therts ■were not detect ed throngli the usual manner of luanipu- 

 laliutc beef, any detrimental ett'ects from cotton-seed ])roduets fed to the animals. 



P]XPE1?1MENTS WITH FEKTILIZERS FOR COTTON, B. M. BAIfEK (pp. 



1-17-149). — The yields are tabulated for cotton grown watli the nse of 

 cotton-seed meal, dried blood, leather scrap, sulphate of ammonia, and 

 nitrate of soda; with a mixture of six parts of cotton-seed meal and 

 two parts of acid phosphate, and the same with one partof kainit; and 

 with cotton-seed meal, acid phosi)hate, and kainit, used singly, two by 

 two, and all three together. No conclusions are given, excei>t that of 

 the two mixtures the one containing kainit generally gave the hirgest 

 yields. 



Varieties ofeotUm (p. 117). — Tabidated yields for 21 varieties of cotton. 



Kansas Station, Bulletin No. 22, August, 1891 (pp. 25). 



Smitt of oats in 1891, W. A. Keller:man, Ph. D. (pp. 73-81). — 

 Privious accounts of statistics and experiments on oat smut ( Ustiloffo 

 (iroKc) imiy be found in Bulletins jS^os. 8 and 15 and in the Annual 

 Iveport of the station for 1889 (see Exi)erinient Station Eecord, vol. i, p. 

 21(1, ami vol. II, pp. 312 ami (538). Tabulated data are given for counts 

 of the amount of oat snuit in 1891 in fields on seven different farms near 

 Manhattan, Kansas. Of the 28,807 heads counted, 1,()00 were smutted, 

 show in g the average percentage of snuit to be 5.76. The amount of 

 snnit in different fields varied from 3.2 to 7.92 per cent. The results of 

 experiments with fungicides are also tabidated. Potassium sulphide 

 was used in solutions varying from | to 20 per cent during from 5 

 minutes to 24 hours. In one case calcium sulphide was used, and in 

 several instances different amounts of suli)hur. The potassium snlphide 

 proved an effective fungicide this year as in 1890. '' It nniy be used in a 

 Aveak solution (say 1 pound to 20 gallons of water), in which the seed 



