296 



flocp-rootiiijjf ]>l;uit, it is qnitr likely tliat Inr.c:^ quantities of this cIciiK'nt 

 liad Leon secured from the deeper layers of subsoil."' 



Fodders and feeds, E. B. Voorhees, M. A. (pp. 101-177). — A 

 brief discussion is given of the food ingredients of feeding stutts and 

 of German feeding standards for animals under ditferent conditions. 

 Analyses (with reference to both food and fertilizing ingredients) made 

 at the station during 18S9 are recorded in tables for the followiiig feeding 

 stuffs: Horse sorrel, gluten meal, fodder corn, alfalfa, and pasture grass 

 (seven different kinds, as timothy third year after rye, timothy tirst and 

 second years alter wheat, tirst year's timothy and clover, second years 

 timothy and alsike clover, mixed seventeenth year, and llaritan Kiver 

 m<'adow), and of timothy hay harvested in clear weather and that 

 which lay through a confinui>us rain for 17 days (1) in the swath 

 and (2) in cocks. Tlicrc is also a compilation of analyses (food and fer- 

 tilizing ingredii-nts) inad<' at tlu' stati(»n. inchidiiig bn'wers' grain, corn 

 jiieal, cotton seed nn'al, gluten meal, old and n«'W-process linseed meal, 

 malt sprouts, ground (»ats, wheat bran, wheat middlings, wheat chaff, 

 cl(»ver hay, oi-charH grass, jtasture grass, rye grass, timothy hay, Cier- 

 nnin millet, alfalfa, fodfiercorn, cornstalks (stover), oat straw, and wheat 

 straw : and a comparison bet\v«'en the food ingredii'nts in (JO ]»ounds of 

 ])astnre grass ami in sevi'ii rations "assumed as used in g<'neral prac- 

 tice," 



I'^XI'KRIMKNTS WITH Dll'l-KKKNT HRKKDS OK DAIRY CoWS, K. !>. 



VooRiiEES, M. A. (i>p. 17S-lS(i). — A reprint of the accounts of this 

 exi>eriment given in liulletins Xos. 57 and 01 of the station (see Exi)eri- 

 ment Station liecord, vol. I, pi). 258 and 200). 



S(»ij(;iir>r and stgar makixu (pp. 1S7-1S!>). — A statement <)f the 

 experiments in tlie Held and in the sugarhouse at Kio Grande, New 

 .Jersey, during 1SS!». A severe storm in Septeiidter so injured the croj) 

 that the yield of sugar was mateiially reduced. 



Keport of Chemical Geologist, II. 15. PATTojf, Pii. 1). (pj). 

 ]01-1!M>). — The first year of the work of the station in the line of soil 

 investigations has been sjx'ut in reviewing the work already don*' in 

 this and other <-ountries, in making a general study of the soils «)f the 

 State, in <'ollecting typical samjiles of soil, and in determining the lines 

 of investigation to be inuuediately undertaken. It has been decided to 

 study the red soils of Xew Jersey with reference to tlu* relations 

 between tlu' color of the soil ami its physical jiroperties and lertility. 

 Questions relating to the llocenlaliou of soils will also l»e in\ cstigated. 

 The nu'thod adoi>t(Ml for the i)reparation of soil samples for ( lieniical 

 and ])hysical analysis is described. 



Keport of Biologist, J. Nelson, Ph. D. (pp. 1117-220). — The biol 

 ogist of the station is engaged for the most part in investigations relat- 

 ing to the oyster imlustry. The statistics of this industry in X«'W 

 Jers«'y were given in tlu' Annual IJeport of the station for ISSS ^see 



