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produced or the amount of fot in the milk and the nitrogenous constituents of the 

 food, since the increase of the alhuminoids in food by nearly 200 per cent was Avithout 

 effect in increasing the amount of milk or its butter content. It is also iu this exper- 

 iment at least noteworthy that the amount of fat in the food during the Hrst seven 

 lieriods (unfortunately analyses were not made of milk during the last two periods) 

 is identical with the amount found iu the milk produced during these same periods. 



The results are cited of a 4-days' test with 9 cows reprcsentiii<;- 5 dif- 

 fereut breeds, which " show that the ainoimt, by weiglit, of milk serrete<l 

 from 5 p. m. to 5 a. m. was about the same as that secreted from 5 a. m. to 

 5 p. m,, the average being " ouly 0.6 i^er cent more during- tiie day." 



Experiments in fattening steers (pp: 20-45). — The data are tabulated 

 for 5 steers of different breeds and different ages, fed various rations 

 from April, 1880, to October, 1800. 



Food values of feeding stuffs (pp. 46-61). — Eeprinted as Bulletin No. 

 31 of the station (see Experiment Station Re€ord, vol. iii, p. 80). 



Miscellaneous (pp. 62-121). — This includes accounts of the i-days' 

 dairy school held at the station during the year; the work at the station 

 on grasses; the fertilizer control, including a reprint of Bulletin jSTo. 25 

 of the station (see Experiment Station Record, vol. ii, p. 366), to which 

 are added analyses of 35 samples of commercial fertilizers ; brief state- 

 ments as to the work in progress at the station; an abstract of an 

 address on the future of American agriculture ; a list of the bulletins 

 published during the year; and acknowledgment of gifts to the station. 



Report of First Assistant, W. P. Wheeler (pp. 122-160). 



Experiments with poultry (pp. 122-140). — This contains in addition to 

 an account of experiments in poultry feeding reported in Bulletin No. 20 

 of the station (see Experiment Station Record, vol. iii, p. 36), accounts 

 of other exj)eriment3 with fowls, trials of homemade brooders and 

 incubators, keeping Q>ggii in dry j)acking, and cai3onizing. 



(1) Feeding foiols for the table. — An experiment was made with 8 

 Capons and 8 Cockerels " to obtain data in regard to meat production." 

 The fowls suffered from roup and " none of them regained vigor enough 

 to show any returns for the food," although the feeding was continued 

 for some months. The data obtained are tabulated. 



(2) Homemade brooders and incubators. — Several forms tried at the 

 station are briefly described and statements are made regarding chickens 

 raised bj' these means. 



^Yhile the chicks were fed very moderately and did not early attain heavy weightsj 

 the growth, although slow, was healthy and satisfactory for chicks confined in small 

 yards. One lot of White Plymouth Rock chicks from the first hatch averaged 1.7 

 pounds at 12 weeks old. Some from later hatches averaged for different lots at 

 10 weeks old, White Plymouth Rocks 1.1 pounds; ''Crosses" (four lots) 1.2 

 pounds, 1.1 pounds, 1.1 pounds, 1.2 pounds; Indian Games (two lots), 1.3 pounds, 

 1.2 pounds. Among the different lots of ''Crosses," which were S. Wyandotte and 

 Buff Cochin by B. B. R. Game, were included quite a number of Light Brahma chicks. 

 Some Pekin ducks reared in this brooder averaged about 3 pounds at 10 weeks 

 old and not quite 4 pounds at 12 weeks. The results of incubator and brooder 

 work are intended for a bulletin when enough data to be instructive are obtained. 



