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The digestibility of the protein compounds was determined by Stut- 

 zer's method, with the following- results: Timothy (4 samples), 65.8 to 

 82 per cent; sheep's fescue (3), 70.4 to 80.5 per cent; tall oat grass (1), 

 85.5 per cent; orchard grass (2), 73.0 to 85.6 per cent; florin or creep- 

 ing bent grass (2), 65.1 to 71.8 per cent; brome grass (I), 77.6 per cent; 

 meadow foxtail (1), 75.8 per cent. — F. w. woll. 



Analyses of feeding stuffs ( Utah Sta. Rpt. 1893, pp. 354, 255).— 

 Analyses with reference to food ingredients of corn fodder, corn silage, 

 native hay, mixed tame hay, lucern hay, vetches, wheat straw, red 

 clover hay, and timothy hay; green red clover, alsike clover, meadow 

 fescue, English rye grass, pea-vine clover, burnet grass, orchard grass? 

 brome grass, timothy, white clover, Galecja officinaUs, rescue grass, 

 Phalaris arundinacca, and sainfoin; clover silage, potatoes, sugar 

 beets, turnips, and carrots; and corn, barley, wheat bran, corn meal, 

 ground oats, ground wheat, ground rye, and bran and shorts. 



Adulteration of cattle food, F. E. Emery {North Carolina ISta. 

 Bui. 103, p. 248). — A sample of wheat bran was found to contain 

 unground kernels of wheat, oats, cockle, chess or cheat, and several 

 other varieties of weed seeds to the amount of 10.96 per cent. Some 

 of the liglit wheat kernels were filled with a dark powder, supposed to 

 be bunt or stinking smut. The cockle seed amounted to 2,77 per cent, 

 equivalent to 55.4 lbs. per ton of bran. The chess or cheat amounted 

 to l.OI \}Qv cent, or 20.2 lbs. per ton. 



The relative value of -wheat, peas, corn, and barley, when 

 mixed -with bran, in the production of pork, A. A. Mills ( Utah 

 Sia. Bui. 34, pp. 10). 



Synopsis. — An experiment with 4 lots of 3 piojs each to compare wheat, peas, coru, 

 aufl barley, when mixed with bran. In about 5 months the lot on peas and 

 bran made the most rapid gain and the largest gain for the food consumed. The 

 wheat mixture came second', followed by coru and bai-ley. Wheat and bran 

 proved the cheapest food. With pork at 4 cts. per pound live weight, 89.4 cts. 

 per bushel was realized for the wheat. 



Twelve jiure-bred Berkshire boars from 11 to 19 weeks old were 

 divided into 4 lots and fed from December 4 to May 10 as follows: Lot 

 1, wheat and bran; lot 2, peas and bran; lot 3, corn and bran; and lot 

 4, barley and bran. The grain and bran were mixed in equal parts by 

 weight. The grain was ground and fed ad libitum in the form of slop. 

 The detailed record of the gains and food eaten are tabulated. The 

 summary is as follows : 



Summary of experiments ivith pigs. 



