ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 673 



wheat offals, proprietary uiixeil feeds, dried l)re\vers' grains, malt sprouts aixl 

 malt frorm. A chanse in the feodinj? stuffs law is also noted. 



[Cattle in Alaska], C. C. Georgeson and M. D. SNODciRASS (Alaska <S7«.s-. /,'/>/. 

 IDOV, PI). 2-'f-2S; 62-65, pi. 1). — An account of the work in progress in cattle 

 breeding at Kodiak Station. " The summer conditions have been favoraijle to 

 the herd. . . . The young stock has grown well, and all were sleek, lusty, and 

 fat at the close of the season of pasture. The (ialloways have proved them- 

 selves to be first-class rustlers. They can stand the climate well, they pay no 

 attention to storms, their heavy coat of long hair protects them against cold, and 

 there is no doubt whatever but that the tialloway is the breetl for Alaska. . 

 It is believed that by selecting the heifers which prove to be good milkers 

 and breeding them for the milking quality and occasionally augmenting the 

 number of milkers with purchases from outside, it will be possible in a few 

 years to develop the milking quality, which has been systematically repressed 

 in the breed for many years past, until a dairy strain will be secured without 

 having sacrificed all of the qualities which go to make good beef cattle as well." 



The daily ration of hay when fed alone was about 25 lbs. per head, and when 

 hay and silage were fed together the daily ration was 10 lbs. of hay and 20 lbs. 

 of silage, until about March 1 when the hay was cut off and silage was fed 

 alone, the ration being increased to 45 lbs. of silage. All of this time the cattle 

 ran on the beach, where they could get more or less kelp that was thrown up 

 by the tide. Some cattle died of impaction of the thix'd stomach as the result of 

 eating half-rotten grass found on the beach. It is recommended that Iceland 

 sheep and the yak be introduced and an attempt made to ci'oss the yak with 

 the Galloway cattle. 



Indian cattle in the United States, A. P. Borden {Amcr. Breeders .!/«;/.. / 

 (1910), A"o. 2, PI). 91-9.'i, flgs. 3). — An account of a herd of 51 head of zebus im- 

 ported from India to Texas in 1906. They were bred to Hereford and grade 

 stock. The first crop of calves, at the time the article was written, was from 14 

 to 20 months old and had been kept in tick-infested pastures and with ticky 

 cattle. 



" This first crop of calves, about 300 in number, has grown upon the range as 

 all our cattle and they are fully 50 per cent heavier than our ordinary range 

 calves. They are as heavy as the calves a year older out of the same mothers, 

 but sired by pure-bred Hereford bulls. The cross-bred animals are smooth, with 

 very strong constitution, are good rustlers, of rapid growth, and are animals that 

 have courage enough to look you in the face when you go about them. . . . 

 It may be claimed for these cattle that they have the power of immunity 

 from Texas fever. They stand a tropical and subtropical climate l)etter than 

 the other breeds of cattle. They have the power of transmitting the tick- 

 resistant quality through several generations." 



Sheep breeding, F. W. Wilson (Arizona Sta. Rpt. 1909, pp. 570-572).— An 

 outline is given of the sheep breeding work at the station in mating native ewes 

 with the Tunis, Oxford, Shroitshire. and Rambouillet brecnls. The Tunis-native 

 ewes are said to be uniform in type, the cross is not troubled to any extent i>y 

 the botfly, and possesses other desiral)le characteristics. 



United States army horses and mules (Breeder's (Uiz., 5S (1910), No. 11. 

 pp. ^I'/o, Wh fios- .^).— An account of the types of cavalry horses and mules 

 desired in the United States army. 



During the last 2 years a successful attempt has been made to buy .3 and 

 4-year-old horses and mules unbroken and to break them while at the special 

 remount stations. This reduces the first cost of stock and increases the average 

 length of life by accustoming the animals to the army rations, while by 

 breaking them at once to army ways they are more efficient and reliable. " The 



