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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



"In seasons such as the one just passed, when the rainfall is so small in the early 

 spring as to seriously cut off the hay crop, we often look about for some plant to sow 

 to supplement the small hay harvest. Millets are often sown and with excellent 

 results, but corn may be planted later than is usually considered wise, and yet get a 

 valuable crop." 



In a test at the station Pride of the North and Learning corn, planted July 3, yielded, 

 respectively, 4,220 and 3,860 lbs. per acre. 



"Considering the late date of planting, the crop was a good one, and makes a very 

 satisfactory 'hay substitute,' and while costing far less per ton than the cotton-seed 

 hulls, was worth much more to us." 



Records of individual cows on dairy farms, A. J. Glover {Illinois Sta. Circ. 

 77, pp. 31, figs. 20) . — This gives the results of tests of 10 dairy herds during the period 

 of one year, and is in continuation of similar work published in a previous bulletin 

 (E. S. R., 15, p. 292). There were 247 cows in the herds at the beginning of the 

 year, and complete records were obtained of 189. Data are given on the care and 

 production of each herd, along with suggestions for the improvement of conditions. 



The best individual record was 8,230 lbs. of milk and 483 lbs. of butter; and the 

 poorest, 1,866 lbs. of milk and 90 lbs. of butter. The best herd record was 5,642 

 lbs. of milk and 308 lbs. of butter; and the poorest, 3,397 lbs. of milk and 153 lbs. of 

 butter. The average production of all the herds was 5.025 lbs. of milk, testing 3.98 

 per cent of fat, and equivalent to 233 lbs. of butter. 



Effect of feed on the composition of milk and butter fat. and on the con- 

 sistency or body of butter, J. B. Lindsey (Massachusetts Sta. Rpt. 1903, pp. 45- 

 62). — This has been noted from another source (E. S. R., 15, p. 1110). 



Milk and its products in pharmacy and in occult science of early times, 

 K. Teiciiekt ( Milch Ztg., 33 {1904), No. ;/./, pp. 499, 500).— A. contribution to the medi- 

 cal superstition of past centuries. — f. w. woi.l. 



Trials of a hand-milking machine, Hittchek ( Milch /t//., S3 (1904), No. 24-25, 

 pp. 869-371, 389-391). — The machine tried is of German origin, invented by Andersen- 

 Schmidt (German patent, No. 118,825). A description of the machine is given in the 

 paper, and the author's experience with the same in the dairy herd of Kleinhof- 

 Tapiau. This was on the whole favorable, tut the author considers the machine, 

 like the Thistle milking machine, a makeshift which in no way can take the place 

 of a good milker. — f. w. woi.i,. 



Trial of the Andersen-Schmidt hand-milking machine, H. Weiomann (Milch 

 Ztg., 33 (1904), No. 29, pp. 449-451). — The author gives a description of the machine 

 (accompanied by 2 illustrations) and of the trials conducted with the same on a 

 Schleswig-Holstein dairy farm. 



The cows gave less milk at the start by the machine than by hand milking, but as 

 they became accustomed to the former the difference apparently disappeared. In a 

 trial with 4 cows the average results obtained by machine and by hand milking dur- 

 ing three 4-day periods were as follows: Periods I and III (machine), milk 30.3 and 

 29.3 liters, fat 1.15 and 1.09 kg.; Period II (hand milking), milk 30.3 liters and 1.18 

 kg. of fat. A second trial conducted with 4 cows in 5 periods of 4 days each, during 

 which machine and hand milking were alternated, gave the following results: 



