1918] ANIMAL PEODUCTION. 



Comparative standing of various feeds for different animals. 



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The by-products of rice milling, J. B. Reed and F. W. Liepsneib (17. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Bui. 670 (1911), pp. 16, pi. 1). — A description of the milling process, 

 analyses of rice and its by-products, and a discussion of results are given. The 

 milling process is illustrated by a diagram showing the progress of the grains 

 through the various stages. 



Three by-products result from the milling process — rice hulls, rice bran, and 

 rice polish. The percentage of hulls varies from 18.7 to 20.9, of brans and 

 palish from 10 to 11.7. The moisture of the rough rice is mainly in the liernel. 

 The rice hulls are very high in both ash and fiber and so low in protein and 

 fat as to have practically no feeding value. The brans usually found on the 

 market are a mixture of the stone-reel bran and the huller brans, since the 

 latter do not keep well alone. This mixture should contain over 26 per cent fat 

 plus protein and should not exceed 13 per cent of crude fiber or 5 per cent of 

 ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. 



Inspection of feeding stuffs (New York State Sta. Bui. 4S4 (1917), pp. 14I- 

 309). — Analyses are reported of various feeding stuffs collected during the fall 

 and winter of 1916-17. Among the samples examined were cottonseed meal, 

 linseed meal, malt sprouts, distillers' and brewers' dried grains, yeast and 

 vinegar dried grains, corn-gluten feed and meal, hominy feed, meat scrap, meat 

 meal, tankage, fish scrap, bone meal, blood meal, corn meal, alfalfa meal, wheat 

 bran, wheat middlings, buckwheat products, corn-germ meal, rye by-products, 

 barley by-products, ground screenings, red-dog flour, oats, dried beet pulp, dried 

 bread, pea meal, peanut-oil meal, oat hulls, corn bran, and various mixed and 

 proprietary feeds. 



[Animal husbandry] work of the Belle Fourche reclamation project ex- 

 periment farm in 1916, B. Atjne (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus., Work 

 Belle Fourclie Expt. Farm, 4916, pp. 6-8, 11, 12, 16-19, fig. i).— An inventory of 

 the live-stock industry on the project is given which shows a steady increase 

 each year from 1913. 



In an experiment in pasturing alfalfa with sheep 10 lambs averaging 75 lbs. 

 in weight were used on 1 acre of third-crop alfalfa. The acre was divided into 

 two parts, on which the sheep were turned in on August 28, 1915, and pastured 

 alternately for 40 days. The iambs made a total gain of 155 lbs. on the acre, 

 an average of 0.39 lb. each per day. On May 29, 1916, 10 yearling sheep were 

 turned in on the same acre of alfalfa and pastured for 120 days. They gained 

 during that period 266.5 lbs. At no tinae during the experiment was there any 

 trouble with bloat in the animals nor was there injury to the alfalfa. The 

 two experiments indicate that an acre of alfalfa divided into two parts and 

 irrigated frequently will support in good condition from 1,400 to 1,700 lbs. live 

 weight of sheep. 



