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At tlie creameries in this Slate the milk or cream is paid for eitlier 

 on the basis of the quantity delivered, without regard to the amount 

 of butter fat it contains or the amount of butter made from it; or by 

 the amount of butter produced. The ol)ject of Short's and other sim- 

 ilar methods is to determine the actual amount of fat in the milk or 

 cream deli\x'ri'd. and use this as a basis of payment. The methods of 

 calculatiuii' the sum to be paid the dairynuui on this latter basis are 

 illustrated and tables gi\en to facilitate calculation^. 



BULLETIN No. 17, OCTOBER, INS!). 



Tp:st of oAiuv cows at Vermont State Fair, Septe.aiber i, 1880, 

 W. W. CooKK. M. A. (\)\). ;5-ir)). — This o-ives an account of a com- 

 2)etitive test, under direction of the Station, of tiie milk and butter 

 from nine cows of three dilt'erent breeds, with tabular records of the 

 results. There is also a table showing the results of tests of milk of 

 six of the same cows at home. Difficulties connected with the trans- 

 portation of the cows to tlie fair grounds and the liandling of the milk 

 there, as well as the fact that the cows did not do as well at the fair 

 as at home, interfered with the success of the trial. 



TIRGIXIA. 



Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College Experiment Station. 



Di'iiiirtuitiit of \'i)'!iinia Aijririilttinil and Mcclnnucdl CoUrqe. 

 Lucation. Blackslmrji. Director. William 15. Preston. 



BULLETIN No. 2. OCTOBER, 188V). 

 ExTERniENT ORCHARD AND S.MAEL FRUrrS, W. B. AlWOOD (pp. 3- 



1-")). — An account of the arrangement of the Station's experimental 

 orchard of 15 acres, and a list of varieties of fruits under culture, 

 including 100 varieties of apj[)les, 11 of crab-ai)ples, 4 of quinces, 32 

 of pears, 43 of peaches, 33 of plums, -1 of apricots, 5 of nectarines, iO 

 of cherries, and 3 of Japanese persinnnons; 23 varieties of raspberries, 

 14 of blackberries. 8 of currants, ."> of gooseberries, 50 of strawberries, 

 82 American and European varieties of grapes, and 21 species of wild 

 gi-apes. 



BULLETIN No. a. NOVEMBER. ISSO. 



Feei)in(; Exi'ERniENTs. D. (). NoiRSE. H. S. (pp. 3-10). — In view 

 of the present unprofitableness of stock raising in Virginia, this Sta- 

 lioii proposes to give cousidcrabic attention to feeding experiments 

 with steers, hogs, and sheep. 



In the ex])eriment reported in (iii-- biillciin eighteen steers froju the 

 Station herd were used. 'J1iey were di\i(h'd into nine lots of two ani- 

 mals each, and each lot Avas fed a dill'erent i-ation. Tlie feeding stuff's, 

 which were fed in A'arioiis combinations, were hay. corn meal, bran, 

 cotton-seed meal, whole corn, silage, and roots. No analyses of the 

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