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compared witli tliat of otber common feediug staffs. Tlie author states 

 that "cotton-seed hulls have less food value than corn fodder and much 

 less food value than «lover hay. . . yet many farmers have bought cot- 

 ton-seed hulls and allowed their cornstalks aud fodder to go to waste." 



Experiments in feeding calves, H. H. Dean {Ontario Agl. College 

 and E.rptl. Farm lipt. 1895, pp. (16, 67). — Value of sMm mill; and whole 

 mill: for calves. — Three tests were made with calves to determine the 

 feeding value of skim milk and whole milk. The first and second tests 

 were each made with 2 grade calves and lasted G weeks and 25 days, 

 respectively. The third test was made with 2 scrub calves and lasted 

 about G weeks. One animal in each test was fed skim milk aud the 

 other whole milk. In addition the calves in the second test were fed 

 some meal and clover hay and 1 calf in the third test was fed some 

 meal and the other bran and oil cake. In the first test the calf fed 

 skim milk gained 80 lbs. and consumed 8.9 lbs. per pound of gain, and 

 the calf fed whole milk gained 12G lbs. and consumed .5.6 lbs. per pound 

 of gain; in the second test the calf fed skim milk gained 117 lbs. and 

 consumed 1.5 lbs. of milk with meal jier pound of gain, and the calf fed 

 whole milk gained 110 lbs. aud consumed 4.2 lbs. of milk with meal per 

 pound of gain; in the third test the calf fed skim milk gained 14 lbs. 

 and consumed about 12 lbs. per pound of gain, and the calf fed whole 

 milk gained 72 lbs. and consumed about 19 lbs. per pound of gain. 



The scrub stock did not make as satisfactory gains as the other stock 

 and, in the authors opinion, this illustrates the importance of breeding. 



Value of sweet ichey for calves. — The feeding value of sweet whey was 

 tested with 2 calves. Sweet whey was gradually substituted for skim 

 milk in the ration. Some bran aud oil cake were fed with the whey. 

 One of these calves was used in the third trial reported above, and the 

 other was a native showing some breeding. During 75 days the first 

 calf gained 85 lbs., "about the same gain that had previously been 

 made on skim milk and meal." During 40 days the second calf gainerd 

 55 lbs. 



In the author's opinion the results were not altogether satisfactory, 

 and larger gains would be made with a better class of calves. 



Steer-feeding experiments, V, 0. 0. Georgeson, F. C. Burtis, and 

 D. H. Otis [Kansas Sta. Bul% 60, pp. 107-146). — A test which was prac- 

 tically a duplicate of work previously reported in Bulletin 34 of the 

 station (E. S. K., 4, p. 475) was made with 20 steers to test the relative 

 merits of a balanced ration, ground corn and ear corn, and to compare 

 indoor and outdoor feeding. After a preliminary period of 2 weeks 

 the test proper began October 23, 1895, and lasted 147 days. The 

 steers were divided into 4 lots. Lots 1 and 2 consisted of 4 grade and 

 1 pure-bred Shorthorn and lots 3 and 4 of 3 grade and 1 pure-bred 

 Shorthorn aud 1 scrub. The weights of the respective lots were 5,G15 

 lbs., 5,048 lbs., 5,793 lbs., and 5,983 lbs. at the beginning'. Lot 1 was 

 fed a ration of 15 parts of corn meal and 4 parts each of linseed 



