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quality. The cost of the various feeding stufls is quoted. The cost of 

 1 lb. gain in live weight was 0.56 ct. cheaper when molasses feed and 

 barley (1:1) were fed than with barley alone. The conclusion is 

 reached that molasses can be advantageously fed to pigs weighing 

 over 50 lbs. Experiments are in progress to test its value with younger 

 pigs. 



Analyses of feeding stuffs {Mississipjn Sta. Itpt. 1S95, pp. 59-54).— Analyses of a 

 large imuiber of feediug stufls are reijorted. Most of these are the individual anal- 

 yses from which the averages given in the article in E. S. R., 6, p. 91, were com- 

 piled. In addition, analyses are given of the following grasses and other feeding 

 stuffs: Grasses — Meadow oat grass {Arena elatior), brome {Bromus pratensis), Job's 

 tears {Colx lachryma), and Triodia sesJerioides. Leguminous plants — Peanut hay {Ara- 

 chis hypogea), and vetch ( Vicia acuiifolia). Miscellaneous — Chinese vetch ( Vigna sp.), 

 Ambrosia trifida, cow salad {Discopleura sp.), Brazilian sponge (Luffa cylindrica), 

 Pyj-rhopappus carolinianus, red clover hay, hairy vetch hay, artichoke, chicken corn 

 seed, shredded Kafir corn, shredded corn, corn, cob, and shucks, corn bran, corn 

 meal, ground corn (4 varieties), corn-and-cob meal, corn-co1)-and-shuck meal, jack 

 bean (pods and beans, beans, and hulls), cowpeas, cotton-seed meal, cotton-seed (raw 

 and cooked), rice hulls, wheat bran, soja beans, pea-vine hay, Tennessee yam, and 

 Blatchford's Feeding Powder. 



Hay substitutes, C. S. Phelps {Connecticut Storrs Sta. Bid. 17, pp. S). — Details 

 are given regarding soil, seeding, harvesting, yield, preservation, composition, feed- 

 ing value, and digestibility of the following hay substitutes which can be advan- 

 tageously used when the hay crop is poor : Hungarian grass, wheat fodder, barley 

 fodder, barley and peas, oat hay, oat fodder, oats and peas, oats and vetch, Canada 

 field peas, red clover, scarlet clover, clover rowen, timothy rowen, rowen of mixed 

 grasses, flat pea, corn fodder, soja-bean fodder, and cowpea fodder. The bulletin is 

 largely based on investigations of the stations. 



"Substitutes for the regular hay crop should be grown as far as possible. These 

 may be used either as silage or dried fodders. The silo has proven valuable and 

 economical for the dairy farm. Corn is probably the best silage crop yet tried, but 

 there are others which have a greater feeding value. Soja-beans and. cowpeas can 

 be readily grown in Connecticut, and, Avhen mixed with corn fodder, make a silage 

 of higher feeding value than corn alone. 



"Among the annual crops for field curing the most valuable seem to be oats and 

 peas, millet, Hungarian, barley and peas, and fodder corn. The feeding value of all 

 of these crops is about equal to, and in some cases higher, than the better grades 

 of hay. 



"The legumes, clover, peas, etc., are especially valuable for fodder and for enrich- 

 ing the soil. They may be most advantageously grown and used in the place of the 

 grasses." 



The composition, digestibility, and food value of potatoes, H. Sxyder (Min- 

 nesota Sta. lipt. 1895, pp, 83-96, Jig. 1). — A reprint of Bulletin 42 of the station 

 (E. S. R., 7, p. 974). 



Heat equivalent of the nutrients of food, F. Stohmanx {Ann. Agron., 22 {1896) 

 No. 11, pp. 5„'5-55J).— Translated from the English (E. S. R., 6., pp. 590-608) by J. 

 Crochetelle. 



Apples as food, J. J. Willis {Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 20 {1896), No. 533, p. 789).— A 

 popular article. 



Milling and the chemical composition of the product of a modern rye mill, 

 M. Falke {Arch. Hyg., 28, No. 1, pp. 49-91, pis. ;?).— The literature of the subject is 

 reviewed at length. The author determined the water, nitrogen, ash, nitrogen-free 

 material (by difi^erence), and in some cases the fat in 76 samples of cleaned rye, rye 

 flour, and the intermediate milling products, and in 5 samples of commercial rye 

 flour. The analyses are given in tabular form. The conclusion was reached that 



