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Feeding stuffs (pp. 1-15). 



Methods of valuation (pp. 1-5). 



An attempt has been made by this Station to find out and analyze all the feeds now 

 in the Connecticut market whoso average composition is not already known, and also 

 to offer some method of comparison or " valuation" for them. 



The method here to be described is not a new one. It has been used abroad, where 

 feeds, like fertilizers, are sold under guarantee as to composition and the seller is 

 obliged to make good any deficiency. The application of the method to American 

 feeds and prices, we believe, has not been attempted before, probably because suffi- 

 cient data have not been in hand. 



Analyses (pp. 5-12).— This article contains analyses of "Columbia 

 Cured Feed for Horses and Cattle," the "Concentrated Feed for Horses, 

 Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, etc.," the "Concentrated Egg Producer," 

 which are not recommended, and of cotton-seed bran, rye feed, oat mid- 

 dlings, barley screenings, oats, buckwheat middlings, maize kernel, old 

 process linseed meal, gluten No. 1 feed, malt sprouts. Glen Cove starch, 

 feed, and apple pomace. Money valuations accompany the analyses. 



Average composition of the icinter food for dairy stoclc in Connecticut 

 (pp. 13-15). — This article includes tables giving the average composi- 

 tion of several kinds of hay, maize fodder, stover and kernel, wheat 

 bran, middlings and shorts, oat bran, rye bran, cotton-seed meal, lin- 

 seed meal, hominy chops, malt sprouts, gluten meal, brewers' grains, 

 and "starch feed." 



BULLETIN NO. 97, APRIL, 1889. 



Fungous diseases of plants, Roland Thaxter, Ph. D. (pp. 1, 

 2). — This article calls the attention of farmers and others to the recently 

 established department of mycology, and contains a list of questions on 

 onion smut, sent to onion growers. 



Fertilizers (pp. 3-13). 



Duties of dealers in fertilizers (p. 3). 



Gratuitous analyses of fertilizers (])p. 3,4). 



The trade values for 1889 of fertilizing ingredients in raw materials 

 and chemicals (pp. 4, 5). 



Valuation of siiper phosphates, special manures and mixed fertilizers of 

 high grade (pp. 5, 6). 



Fertilizer analyses (pp. 6-13). 



The analyses reported include those of ashes from small birch-boughs, 

 tobacco stems, cotton-seed meal (a mechanical analysis is given of two 

 of the sam])les of cotton-seed meal in addition to the chemical analyses), 

 nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, potash salts, and cotton-hull ashes. 



Cotton-hull ashes have been for some j^ears the cheapest source of potash on the 

 Connecticut market. The potash is soluble in water, is entirely free from chlorides, 

 and is combined chiefly with phosphoric and carbonic acid. The ashes are now used 

 chiefly on tobacco lands, but are worth the attention of all who buy raw materials 

 rather than mixed fertilizers. The only thiug which stands in the way of their more 

 general use is the uneven quality of the material, due to the fact that the hulls are 

 often burned together with coal, so that the hull ashes are mixed with considerable 

 coal ashes. 



