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calves, based largely on results found at the experiment stations. It is pointed 

 out that hy good feed and care, or the lack of it, it is easy to make a variation 

 of ^1 to $10 per head in the value of the calf the first year. 



Directions are given for using skim milk, buttermilk, whey, and other feeds 

 as substitutes for whole milk. 



Raising lambs in Alabama: Maintenance rations for ewes. — Feeding cot- 

 ton-seed meal to pregnant ewes, D. T. Gray and J. W. Ridgway {Alabama 

 Col. Sta. Bui. I'lS, pp- 131-158, pis. //). — This contains general information on 

 sheep raising in Alabama and reports experiments in raising lambs begun in 

 the summer of 1908. Details of the method of handling the flock and the 

 winter feeding of ewes are given. 



One lot of ewes was kept at uniform weight in the winter of 1906-7 on a 

 ration of 0.5 lb. of cotton-seed meal and 1.3 lbs. of hulls daily. Another lot was 

 maintained on a daily ration of 1.9 lbs. of soy-bean hay. The lot on soy-bean hay 

 ate on an average 1.35 lbs. of salt per head per month, and the lot on cotton- 

 seed meal and hulls 1.53 lbs. A lot fed green sorghum and mixed hay con- 

 sumed 1.23 lbs. of salt per head per day, and one receiving cotton-seed meal 

 and hulls 1.29 lbs. The water drank per head per day by ewes from August 21 

 to September 9 on a green sorghum ration was 2.5 lbs., and on cotton-seed meal 

 and hulls, 6.1 lbs. The lambs attained an average of 51 lbs. each at the end of 

 101 days, and were sold from 8 to 9 cts. per pound live weight. 



Sixty-five ewes were fed on cotton-seed meal for different lengths of time, 

 and in varying amounts, with no ill results, except in one case where a ewe 

 that had been fed on a cotton-seed meal ration for 147 days staggered and 

 became blind and finally died. There wei-e no more cases of abortion among 

 ewes eating cotton-seed meal than in the check lots. 



Swine: Breeding, feeding, and management, AV. Dietrich {Chicago. 1910, 

 pp. 312, pi. 1, fiffs. 36). — In this book an attempt is made " to present the subject 

 of swine breeding, feeding, and management in such a form that it can be 

 understood by the general farmer and swine breeder, the man who is producing 

 hogs for the pork product, as well as for the man who is producing pure-bred 

 swine for breeding purposes. The student also is kept in mind, and it is hoped 

 that the elementary form in which this subject is presented will appeal to the 

 needs of the class room." 



The information is drawn to a large extent from the author's practical 

 experience on the farm and from the experimental work which he has conducted 

 at the Illinois Station. The portion of the book which treats of feeding rests on 

 a more scientific basis than is usually the case in so-called practical books. 



Swine in health and disease, Zwaenepoel and Hermans (Lcs Maladies et 

 VHygiene du Pore et son Exploitation Zootcchniquc. pp. 305, pis. 7, figs. 23; rev. 

 in Ann. Med. VM., 58 (1909), No. 6, pp. 367, 368; Rec. Med. V<^t., 86 (1909), No. 

 23, pp. 8-^6, 8-^7). — This is a practical treatise upon the breeding, feeding, and 

 management of swine. 



Notes on the history of swine raising in Norway, 1660—1814, S. Skappel 

 (Tidsskr. Norske Landbr., 16 (1909), No. 7, pp. 326-331).— Thiii is a general 

 discussion of the conditions of the swine industry during the period stated. 



Horse breeding in theory and practice, B. von Oettingen {London, 1909, 

 pp. VIII + -'f6D). — This book, which is a translation from the German, is largely 

 a discussion of data obtained from stud books of the Thoroughbred horse and 

 from reports of racing trials. 



The first part is devoted exclusively to the Thoroughbred, taking up in detail 

 the development of the breed up to the middle of the nineteenth century, a dls- 



