600 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORU. 



either source is equally satisfactory as a roughness for beef cattle, though owning to 

 the fact that sorghum silage can be grown as a 'second crop' it can be produced for 

 some less than the corn silage. Stover is not as satisfactory a roughness as silage." 



According to the authors cotton-seed bran did not prove satisfactory when fed 

 alone as a coarse fodder or when substituted for 48 per cent of the cotton-seed meal 

 in a ration. 



"The farmer can produce his own roughness for less than he can buy it, and it 

 will always be to his interest to bu\- the pure cotton-seed meal. . . . The average 

 slaughter test of the dry-fed cattle was 55.4 per cent, and of the succulent-fed cattle 

 L6A per cent. The weight of good meat in the carcass of the dry-fed cattle was 

 8,106 lbs., and in the succulent-fed cattle 8,683 lbs., adifference of 577 pounds of salable 

 meat in favor of the succulent-fed cattle. The necessity of improving our native 

 stock is shown by the slaughter test, which was about 55 per cent for all the groups. 

 The average cattle slaughtered in Southern abattoirs do not dress over 50 i^er cent, 

 whereas they should dress 60 per cent with animals of the weight and size of those 

 considered in the experiments of 1902. This would amount to a loss of 96.2 lbs. per 

 head, which at a selling price of 8 cts. per pound means a loss of 17.70 per animal." 



In the authors' opinion a number of the lots could have been profitably fed for a 

 longer period. 



Feeding- experiments, E. R. Lloyd {Mississippi Sta. Rpt. 1902, pp. 16-18). — Brief 

 notes are given regarding the feeding of cows, beef cattle, mules, and sheep at the 

 station. Using 2 lots of mules, the feeding value of cotton-seed meal as jiart of the 

 ration was tested, 1 lot being fed wheat bran and cotton-seed meal 3:1 and the other 

 bran and cotton-seed meal 1:1. The mixtures w^ere eaten sparingly at first and at 

 the end of 6 weeks were practically refused. It was thought this might have been 

 due to the fact that the mules had not been accustomed to wheat bran, and corn 

 chops was, therefore, substituted for it; but, according to the author, they still refused 

 to eat enough of the mixture to keep them in good working condition, and at the end 

 of 90 days they were losing flesh so rapidly that the cotton-seed meal was discon- 

 tinued. 



Statistics are given regarding the station flock of sheep. The average cost of win- 

 tering was 99 cts. per animal, the ration fed consisting of cotton-seed meal, cotton- 

 seed hulls, and shredded corn fodder. The feeding experiments with cows are more 

 extensively noted elsewhere (p. 606). The test with l)eef cattle has been reported in 

 a previous publication (E. S. R., 14, p. 483). 



Cattle rearing in Egypt, J. L. Smith [Jour. Khediv. Agr. Sac. and School. Agr., 

 4 {1902), No. 4, pp- 161-165). — The author discusses the conditions and requirements 

 for successful cattle raising under local conditions. 



Swine feeding in Colorado, B. C. Buffum and C. J. Griffitji {Colorado SUi. 

 Bid. 74, pp- 29, figs. 2). — With a view to learning the possibilities of ]jig raising in 

 Colorado, where large corn crops are not grown, 4 tests were made of the feeding 

 value of sugar beets, sugar-ljeet pulp, and alfalfa, and of barley and other local 

 grown grains as compared with corn. As pointed out by the authors, the sugar-beet 

 crop and the alfalfa crop in Colorado are very large, and great quantities of sugar- 

 beet pulp are available for feeding should it prove satisfactory. An analysis of the 

 pulp is quoted. 



The first of the tests reported was made with 5 lots each containing 4 grade pigs, 

 averaging not far from 100 lbs. in weight at the beginning of the trial. Lot 1 was fed 

 chopped sugar beets only, lots 2, 4, and 5 ground wheat and bai-ley, 1:1, and lot 3 

 shelled corn. In addition, lot 2 was fed beet pulp and lot 5 sugar beets. The test 

 covered about 100 days. The average daily gain per pig in the 5 lots was 0.17, 0.89, 

 0.70, 1.16, and 0.94 lbs., respectively, the cost of a pound of gain being 12.3, 4.3, 7, 

 4.5, and 5 cts. Lots 1, 3, and 4 required resjjectively 10.37 lbs. of sugar beets, 3.8 

 lbs. of corn, and 5.25 lbs. of the wheat and barley mixture per pound of gain. Lot 



