1917] ANIMAL PRODUCTION". 765 



corresponding percentages for palm kernel meal were 75.5, 76.7, 90, 96.4, 86, and 

 44.8; and for undecortlcated Egyptian cottonseed cake 57.7, 58, 74.7, 100 (?), 62, 

 and 84.9. The composition and estimated digestible nutrients of these feeds 

 are given. 



In an experiment with five cow?; a slight increase in the fat content of the 

 milk was produced on feeding palm kernel cake. This increase was more pro- 

 nounced in the evening milk than in the morning milk, and varied greatly with 

 individual cows. From an examination of samples of the milk fat of two of 

 the cows in this test it was concluded that the feeding of palm kernel cake 

 exercised an effect upon the composition of the milk fat such as might be ob- 

 tained by the passage of some ingredients of palm kernel oil into the milk fat. 



Commercial feeding stufEs, A. J. Patten, E. F. Beegek, A. E. Smoll, and 

 E. A. De Windt {Michigan Sta. Bui. 276 {1916), pp. S-72).— In addition to 

 notes on the requirements of the state feeding stuffs law, results are tabulated 

 of the analyses of 1,060 samples of feeding stuffs collected in the State during 

 1916, including cottonseed meal, cottonseed feed, linseed meal, flaxseed meal, 

 distillers' dried grains, brewers' dried grains, gluten feed, gluten meal, hominy 

 feed, corn feed meal, cracked corn, blood and bone meal, meat meal, meat 

 scrap, digester tankage, granulated bone, beef scrap, alfalfa meal, wheat bran, 

 barley bran, pea bran, wheat, oat, and rye middlings, and mixed and proprietary 

 feeds. 



Commercial feeding stuffs, 1915—16, [and] Texas feed law, B. Youngbi.ood 

 {Texas Sta. Bui. 194 {1916), pp. 5-351). — Analyses are given of cottonseed 

 meal, cottonseed cake, cold pressed cottonseed, cold pressed cottonseed (made 

 fi-om bolly seed), linseed meal, peanut meal, peanut cake, corn feed meal, corn 

 chop, corn bran, hominy feed, milo maize chop, milo maize meal, Kafir corn 

 chop, Kafir corn meal, feterita chop, wheat bran, wheat shorts, barley chop, 

 rolled barley, crushed oats, rice polish, rice bran, cowpea and hull chops, 

 alfalfa meal, dried beet pulp, dried brewers' grains, distillers' gi-ains, fish meal 

 meat scrap, meat meal, digester tankage, bone chop, and various mixed and 

 proprietary feeds, together with other u.seful data. The text of the law regu- 

 lating the sale of feeding stuffs in Texas is included. 



Sheep husbandry in Oklahoma, W. L. Caelyle and D. A. Spencer (Okla- 

 homa Sta. Bui. Ill {1916), pp. 3-47, Jigs. i2).— This bulletin treats in a general 

 way of the sheep industry of Oklahoma, breeds of sheep, management of the 

 farm flock, and common sheep troubles and their treatment, and gives results 

 of a number of feeding experiments with sheep at the station, together with 

 general directions for fattening and marketing sheep. 



Notes are given on the progress of an experiment started at the station in 

 1909 in which an effort is being made to produce a type of sheep suitable for 

 Oklahoma conditions by crossbreeding Dorsets, Shropshires, and Merinos. 



The station produced 46 early lambs in the fall of 1913 and sold several of 

 them on the Easter market in Kansas City in the spring of 1914. The total 

 cost of producing the lambs at the farm was $4.60 per lamb. The freight and 

 commission charges averaged 70 cts. per lamb, making the average total cost 

 per lamb by the time they were placed on the market $5.30. The receipts per 

 lamb were $7. 



In a feeding experiment during the winter of 1912-13 a lot of six ewes con- 

 suming an average of 4.94 lbs. of silage and 0.51 lb. of cottonseed meal per 

 head daily made an average daily gain of 0.39 lb. per ewe for 49 days. During 

 the same period another lot of six ewes on an average daily ration of 2.97 lbs. 

 of alfalfa hay and 0.98 lb. of corn chop made an average daily gain of 0.53 lb. 

 per ewe. No difference could be observed in the health and vigor of the ewes 

 and lambs in the two lots. 



