877 



Meteorological summary (p. 37). — Tabulated data for each 

 month of 1891 . The averages for the year were as follows: Pressure 

 (inchovs). — Average 29.7. Air icmpcrature (degrees F.). — Maximum 97; 

 minimum 19; average G3.G. Rnmidity. — Relative huinidity 75. Precip- 

 itation. — Total (inches) 61.17; number of days on which rain fell 84. 

 Sunsh ine (hours).— Total 2,182. TV7n(7.— Total movement (miles) 09,191. 



Missouri Station, Bulletin No. 17, January, 1892 (pp. 28). 



Sugar beets in Missouri, G. P. Fox. — This includes general infor- 

 mation regarding- the culture of sugar beets, and reports ou experi- 

 ments at the station and elsewhere in Missouri. 



Five varieties grown at the station in 1890 averaged 14 per cent of 

 sucrose in the juice, but 4 of these varieties in 1891 averaged only 12.64 

 per cent. The difference in sugar content is attributed to difierences 

 in climatic conditions. The results of analyses of 57 sam^iles from 20 

 counties of the State, as tabulated, show i>ercentages of sucrose rang- 

 ing from 4.59 to 18.85 and averaging 9.81. The temperature is higher 

 and the rainfall greater in Missouri than in the beet-growing regions of 

 Europe and the soil is largely uufit for beet culture. The outlook for 

 the introduction of this industry into Missouri is not promising, but 

 the experiments will be repeated. 



New Hampshire Station, Bulletin No. 15, December, 1891 (pp. 7). 



Patent cattle foods, G. H. Whitcher, B. S., and F. W. Morse, 

 B, S. — This includes analyses of Pratt's Food, Weston's Condition Pow- 

 ders, and Climax Food, which h;ive been extensively used in the State. 

 The samples analyzed were purchased in the openmarket. The Pratt's 

 Food sold at 75 cents per package of 12 pounds or §6 per 100 pounds. 

 " The food appears to be wheat middlings, to which has been added 

 some fenugreek." The condition powders sold at 50 cents per package 

 of 3 pounds. '' In appearance it resembles a mixture of corn meal and 

 cotton-seed meal, and it had a saline taste and strong odor of fenu- 

 greek." It was found to contain chlorine equivalent to 4.7 per cent of 

 common salt, about the same percentage of fat as corn meal, but con- 

 siderably more protein and ash than the latter. The Climax Footl sold 

 at $1 for 12i pounds or $8 per 100 pounds. 



In appearance it reseral)led a mixture <jf fine wheat middlings and vrlieat screen- 

 ings, together with a small quantity of caraway or fennel seeds and small bits of a 

 substance like butternut or elm bark. It had, like the other samples, a strong saline 

 taste and odor of fenugreek. * * « 



The comparison shows that the Climax has only its extremely high percentage of 

 ash to warrant a claim to being a concentrated food. The Climax also contained 

 a. 59 per cent of sulphur, and in tlie water solution were found chlorine 5.92, sul- 

 l)lnnic anhydride 2.53, and sodium oxide 8.54 percent, together with traces of potas- 

 sium and magnesium and a large amount (qualitatively) of nitric acid. 



