672 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



vidual are thus characterized by a defliiite individuality of their own, and can 

 be distinguished from those of any other individual of the same species." 



Judging' pedigrees, F. R. Marshall (Breeder's Gaz., 58 {1910), No. S, p. 

 300). — The author proposes a score-card method of arriving at the valuation 

 of a pedigree, which takes into consideration both ancestry and the character- 

 istics of the individual. 



Grain farming or live stock? E. Davenport {Breeder's Gaz., 51 {1910), 

 Nos. 21, pp. 1228, 1229; 22, p. 1278; 23, p. 1331; 25, p. U18; 26, pp. U60, 

 1^61). — ^A series of articles containing an account of the/work of the Illinois 

 Station in exposing the fallacies that certain soils are hoi)eless and that other 

 lands are inexhaustible. It is stated that because the iuA-estigations of the sta- 

 tion have shown that the fertility of the land can be maintained either with or 

 without live stock, the public has gained the impression that the station officials 

 have advocate<l grain growing instead of stock farming, an assumption not 

 warranted by the facts in the case. 



Feeding-off experiments, W. Angus {Jour. Dept. Agr. So. Aust., 13 {1910), 

 No. 12, pp. 1066, 1067). — With a view of testing the relative merits of several 

 pasture crops, plats of 2 acres each wei'e sown with barley, rye, rape, and a 

 mixture of rye and rape, the whole being manured at the rate of 1* cwt. of 

 bone superphosphate per acre. 



During the season of ltX)8-9, 166 sheep were pastured on the barley plat for 

 an aggregate of IS days, which is at the rate of 4.1 sheep per acre per year. 

 On the rye, rape, and the mixture of rye and rape plats, there were carried the 

 same number of sheep for 21, 25, and 22 days, respectively, or at the rates of 

 4.8, 5.7, and 5 sheep per acre per year, respectively. 



During the following season 150 sheep were carried on the barley plat for 20 

 days, on the rye plat for 21 days, on the rape plat for 18 days, and on the mix- 

 ture of rye and rape for 19 days, or at the rate of 4.1, 4.3, 3.7, and 4 sheep per 

 acre per year, respectively. 



Dried yeast as a feeding stuff, O. Kellner (Dent. Lamhc. Presse, 37 {1910), 

 No. 53, pp. 58.',, 585; Dent. Landw. Tierzuelit. L'f {1910), No. 3J,, pp. J,OJ,, 

 J,05). — Two wethers were fed a ration of 750 gm. of meadow hay and 300 gm. 

 of dried yeast per head per day. The yeast, which had been dried by a patent 

 process, gave the following analysis: Water 11.8 per cent, crude protein 43.1 

 per cent, fat 0.5 per cent, nitrogen-free extract 36.3 per cent, fiber 0.2 per cent, 

 and ash 8.1 i^er cent. The coefficient of digestible organic matter was 91 per 

 cent and that of crude protein 90.9 per cent. 



Rough rice as feed for horses and mules, W. H. Dalrymple {Louisiana 

 Stas. Bui. 122, pp. 3-8, fig. 1). — Rations for 2 mules weighing about 900 lbs. each 

 were compounded, gi'adually increasing the amount of ground rough rice at 

 intervals until 8 lbs., or a little over, was fed to each mule per day. The basal 

 ration consisted of ci'acked corn, cotton-seed meal, blaclistrap molasses, and les- 

 petleza hay. As the amount of rice was increased the cracked corn was de- 

 creased. Between April 25 and June 30 the mules consumed 5 sacks of rice. 

 The general health and condition of the nuiles were excellent throughout the 

 test, with the exception of 1 or 2 off days due to hot weather. 



" AVhen the prices of other cereal (feeding) grains are high, etc., and other 

 conditions warrant, ground rough rice may be found of considerable economic 

 value as a feed for horses or mules, if intelligently and systematically usetl." 



Inspection of feeding stufEs {New York State Sta. Bui. 32.',, pp. 53-l.',3).— 

 Analyses are reported of distillers' grains, hominy feed, gluten feed, cotton- 

 seed meal, barley feal, buckwheat screenings, meat meal, beef scrap, shredded 

 wheat waste, linseed meal, alfalfa meal, pea meal, provender, corn meal, corn- 

 cob meal, corn bran, oil cake, dried beet pulp, force screenings, poultry feeds, 



