426 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



"These results are rather indecisive, as iu one experiment the meat meal and in 

 the other the cnt fresh bune gave the better results, as measured by egg production. 

 The condition of the fowls receiving the meat meal has, however, been uniformly 

 better than in the other lots." 



The author remarks that it is difficult to feed cut bone so that it is 

 evenly distributed. 



"Some hens almost invariably secure more than their share, and this is eql^ally 

 true, whether the cut bone be scattered or mixed in a mash. The result is frequent 

 diarrheas. The meat meal, on the other hand, can be evenly mixed in a mash, so 

 that all fowls share alike, as it can not be; picked out. Our results indicate that it 

 is a safer feed than the bone; it is also a much cheaper feed; and, if it will give 

 practically as many eggs, it is to be preferred. This experiment will be repeated." 



Chemical composition of American food materials, W. 0. Atwatek and C. D. 



Woods ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Sfalions lUih 28, pp. 47, figs. 4). — This bul- 

 letin includes a brief history of food analysis, explanations of terms used in discuss- 

 ing composition of food materials, and diagrams showing the methods of cutting 

 beef, veal, pork, and mutton. The maximum, minimum, and average percentage 

 composition and fuel value of a large number of American food materials are given, 

 including difi'erent kinds and cuts of meat, fowl, fish, shellfish, dairy products, 

 canned goods, vegetables, fruits, nuts, flour, meal, sugar, starches, bread, crackers, 

 cake, and other prepared foods. 



Poultry foods (Connecticut State Sta. Rpt. lS95,pp. 226, 221). — Analyses are given of 

 8 poultry foods which were sent to the station for examination. " All the prepara- 

 tions appear to consist chiefly of meat and bone having about the composition of 

 'bone tankage,' which is used as a fertilizer." 



Results of analyses of fodders and feeding stuffs, C. D. Woods (Connecticut 

 Storrs Sta. Ept. 1895, pp. 175-186). — Analyses are reported of the following feeding 

 stuffs: Green fodders — barley, Hungarian grass, oats, oats and peas, Canada field 

 peas, cowpea vines, flat pea, soja liean vines, timothy roweu, clover rowen, corn fod- 

 der, sweet corn fodder, and corn silage ; cured hay and fodders — corn stover, corn 

 fodder and stover, scarlet clover hay, clover haj, hay of ndxed grasses, Hungarian 

 hay, timothy rowen, rowen hay, oat hay, and swamp hay; seeds — yellow and white 

 flint corn, soja beans, and wheat; and milling and by-products — corn meal, corn-and- 

 cob meal, cotton-seed meal, Buftalo gluten meal, Imperial feed, malt sprouts, old. 

 process linseed meal, soja-bean meal, culled peas, refuse from manufacture of split 

 peas, wheat bran, and wheat middlings. 



Analyses of feeding stuffs (Connecticut State Sta. lipt. 1895, pp. 327-231). — Analyses 

 are given of a number of feeding stuffs which were sent to the station for examina- 

 tion, including maize kernel, gluten meal, gluten feeds, wheat bran, rice flour, barley 

 feed, rye bran, " Cattle Feed," and " Hall's Dairy Ration." 



" The intelligent dairyman can have but little use for ready-mixed rations of any 

 sort. The grain and mill feed which he uses will be adjusted by him both iu kind 

 and in amount to balance the coarse fodder which he has on hand, and with greater 

 economy and skill than by others whose business is selling feed and not <lairying. 



"The dairyman's opportunities for informing himself regarding the compounding of 

 rations are ample. His chances of detecting adulterations, or the mixtures of mill 

 wastes of inferior value are much better when he buys cotton seed, gluten, and bran 

 separately, each of which has a tolerably definite and constant composition, than 

 when he buys a mixture of a number of feeds with no such definite understanding 

 as to its composition." 



Compilation of analyses of fodder articles and daiiy products, 1868-'96, 

 C. S. Crocker (Massachusetts natch Sta. Bpt. 1805, pp. 248-264).— This is a tabulated 

 summary of analyses made at Amherst, Massachusetts, since 1868. 



Fodder analyses, J. B. Lindsev kt al. (Massachusetts Hatch Sta. Bj)t. 1895 j pp. 



