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NEVADA. 



Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station. 



DciHtrtmcnt of Xcrada titalc L iiirrrxity. , 



Location, lU'iio. Director. S. A. .Tones, I'll. D. 



BILLKTIX No. f., Si:rTE:SII'.EU. IMS;). 



Meteorological ukpout fou July, Augi.st, and SEPTEMiiEu, 1889, 

 W. S. Devol. B. A(iu. (pp. 1-18). — Notes and tahuliir reconl of read- 

 ings of barometer and thermometer, and observations of dew-point, 

 relative luimidity. precipitation, velocity and direction of wind, 

 cloudiness, and frosts. 'I'he sunshine recorder constructed at the Sta- 

 tion in August is described. 



BULLETIN No. 7. DECEMBER. 188!). 



MeTEOIIOLOOK AL KEPOKT FOR OcTOHER, XoVEINIIiliR, AND DECEMBER, 



1880, W. S. Devol. B. A(;r. ( pp. 1-10). — Data sindlar to those in Bul- 

 letin No. (') are here recorded for the last (juarter of 188',). 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



New Hampshire Ag'ricultural Experiment Station. 



Department of yew Haiiipxfiiic ('oUeiie of Agriculture and the Meclianic Arts. 



Location, Hanover. Director, G. H. Wliiteber, B. S. 



BULLETIN No. 8, NOVEMBER, 1889. 



Feeding experiments, G. H. Whitcher, B. S. (pp. 3-17). 



Principles of feeding (pp. 3-9). — Under this heading tables of 

 feeding standards are given and tlieir use explained. 



Analyses of materials used in feeding experiments^ winter of 1888- 

 89 (pp. 9-11). — Here are given in tabular form results of analyses 

 of early and late cut timothy hay, corn meal, middlings, shorts, 

 cotton-seed meal, and gluten. 



Feeding experiments tvith milch cows {pp. 11-17). — A tabular rec- 

 ord of an experiment Avith seven cows during four periods of two 

 weeks each, from March 11 to JNIay 6, inclusive, in whi(;h corn meal, 

 cotton-seed meal, and shorts are compared as variable ingredients of 

 rations, Avhich include in each case one of these materials, together 

 with silage, rye hay, shorts, and gluten. There are also notes on 

 experiments with single cows in which middlings are compared with 

 shorts, middlings with gluten, and gluten with shorts. 



Among the conclusions are: (1) Narrowing the nutritive ratio 

 from the German standard of 5.4 to 4.5 did not materially increase 

 the amotmt of milk. (2) Under the conditions of the experiment, a 

 pound of digestible matter appeared to be slightly moi-e efficient in 

 the narrow than in the wide ration. (3) " We must not lose sight of 

 the fact that the mantire from the cotton-seed ration must have been 



