315 



feet." 'i'lu' lat('i-;il root- coinniciiccil iil»i»ut '■) iiiclics I)elow the surface, 

 ;iiid for the most ])art did not iio below !> iiichc-. Out of more than 

 twenty plants <jfrowii on heavier loam soil, with conipact subsoil, only 

 one was found with well -developed tap-root below !) inches. Most of 

 the lateral roots were contained within o to !) inches of the surface. 



SOl'TII I>AKOTA. 



South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. 



l)('/)tiitiiiciit of Sniilli Diikotii .\iiri<-i(ll unil ('olhf/c. 



Locatir.n. r.rodkiiiLrs. 1 »iri"ctni. Lewis McLoutli. I'll. D. 



lULl H'lIX No. 1.".. XOVKMl'.Elt. l.SM). 



Forestry. C. A. Ki:ki'i:i.' ( i)p. :5-2S). — This contains a weather rec- 

 ord f(U' thirt*^en months. l)('<rinning September, lbS8; a diagram of 

 the forestry plantation of the Station, with the names of varieties of 

 ti-ees on each plat : a brief account of the treatment which this planta- 

 tion has received, and a tabular record of the growth of each variety 

 in inches, from May to September, 1S89, inclusive: a similar record 

 for the seedling forest jdat ; notes on the development of roots of a 

 few seedling trees examined: a similar record for the cuttings of 

 several ^■arieties and grafts of .Russian poplars; a record of the 

 growth of trees on the college lawn during 1887, 1888, and 1889; a 

 record of the growth of eleven varieties of evergreens; notes on six 

 varieties of eA'ergreens grown from seed : suggestions as to the plant- 

 ing of trees on timber claims, and notes on fourteen varieties of trees 

 worthy of trial in South Dakota, viz: White elm, box-elder, green 

 ash, white birch, yellow birch, European larch, cotton-wood, a Rus- 

 sian poplar iPopiihis ferfhiensis), black wild cherry, white oak, but- 

 ternut, black-walnut, w hite i)ine, and Scotch pine. 



te:nxessee. 



Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station. 



neixtrtiiiriit of the University of Tennessee. 



Lor-.'ition. Knoxville. Director, Charles W. Dabney. jr.. Ph. D. 



BULLETIN" Vol. II. No. ?,. JULY. 1S89. 

 C0TT0N-SEf:D HULLS .AXD ^NIE.VL .VS FOOD FOR LIVE STOCK, W. E. SfOXE, 



Ph. D. (pp. 47-56). — This contains an account of the results of in- 

 quiries concerning the use of cotton-seed hulls and meal as food for 

 live stock, as practiced in the vicinity of oil mills at Memphis, New 

 Orleans. Houston. Raleigh, Little Rock. Atlanta, and elsewhere in 

 the South. Analyses of the hulls and meal, and of manure from ani- 

 mals fed on hulls and meal, are also given. The practice of feeding 

 cotton-seed hulls to live stock seems to have begun as early as 1870, 

 soon after the introduction of the oil industry. ■' But probably the 

 first attempts at systematically feeding an exclusive ration of hulls 



