770 



EXPEKIMEXT STATIOX KKCOKD. 



Feeding experiments with ensiled and dried beet pulp, O. Moseu y MoiKtlsh. 

 Laiidw., 7 {lUUi), A'o. 7, pp. Jo.i-ir,^). — Oxen fed fur from 174 to 200 days on 

 beet pulp, dried and ensiled, together with hay and grain, showed a daily gain 

 of 1.04 kg. per head on the ensiled product, 0.S3 lb. gain where the ensiled and 

 ilriod material was fed half and half, and 0.76 lb. gain on the dried product. 



I Digestibility of Wyoming-grown hays], F. II. IIki'Nke ( Wyoming ,S7«. Ritt. 

 I'JI-'i. p. J.'/7).—\ii experimeuls to determine the digestibility of pure native hays 

 the following coeflicients were obtained with sheeji: 



Dit/cslioii rocffickiils of \Viioiniii(i-<iroiru Ikij/.s fed to ■■shceii. 



Kind of hay. 



Dry 

 matter. 



Organic 

 matter. 



Protein. 



Ether 

 extract. 



Nitro- 

 gen-free 

 extract. 



Crude 

 fiber. 



Juncus balticus 



Do 



Bromus inermis 



A gropyron pseudorepens 



Poa nevadensls 



A . occidentale 



Eleocharis palustris 



Carex utriculata 



C. nebraskensis 



Per ct. 



07. 45 

 6t). 4,S 

 6.3. 41 



61.55 

 6.3.03 

 68.51 

 62.13 

 61.12 



Per ct. 

 OS. 55 

 67.95 

 65.06 

 69.25 

 63.79 

 65.31 

 70.99 

 67.63 

 63.16 



Per ct. 

 72.33 

 74.98 

 74. 66 

 76.08 

 62.20 

 74.15 

 64.06 

 63.48 

 59.69 



Per ct. 

 49.39 

 49.51 

 52.56 

 56.41 

 42.73 

 52.92 

 50.26 

 52.55 

 32.40 



Perct. 

 66.12 

 56.66 

 64.87 

 71.10 

 59. 75 

 62.43 

 69.95 

 65. hO 

 63.28 



Per ct. 

 72.29 

 70.06 

 61.86 

 64.62 

 70.98 

 67.99 

 75.84 

 72.84 

 66.57 



Uses of screenings, J. R. Dymonu (Ann. Rpt. Ontario Ayr. and Eapt. Union. 

 35 {1913), pp. G.'f-fiC)). — It is stated that screenings are used in large quantities 

 for the winter feeding of sheep, the sheep being taken from the range and fed 

 for about 30 days. At first they are given only hay, then a small quantity 

 (4 lb. per day) of light, chaffy screenings is added. Gradually the quantity is 

 increased until in about a week or 10 days, the sheep have access to the '" self 

 feeders" from which they eat all the screenings they care for (about 2 lbs. 

 per day). At the same time the proportion of chaff in the screenings is de- 

 creased and the proportion of grain increased. Gradually the screenings are 

 replaced with corn. 



On the screenings the sheep usually gain from 12 to 15 Ib.s. during the first 

 oO days, after that less rapidly. It is stated that 50,000 sheep will eat about 2 

 cars of screenings and a car of corn per day. Seed-house screenings and 

 screenings containing a large proportion of broken flax are avoided. 



Another use that is made of elevator screenings is in the manufacture of 

 mixed feeds, chiefly molasses feeds. 



Report of the wool specialist, J. A. Hill ( Wyoniiny tita. Rpt. IdUf. pp. 

 162-165). — It is reported that "the results of an experiment in which 20 

 wethers were exchanged, ten natives of Ohio to Wyoming and ten natives of 

 Wyoming to Ohio, show that a given sheep is likely to produce at least as 

 much wool per year in Wyoming as in Ohio. 



" The results of a 3-year experiment in which 30 Rambouillet wethers were 

 divided into three lots of ten each and fed so as to test the effect on the wool 

 production of the feeding without change for a year, respectively, of a wide, 

 medium, and narrow ration, showed that the narrow ration tended to give 

 greater wool production than either the medium or the wide." The rations 

 were made up as follows for a lot of ten sheep : Wide, native hay 36 lbs. ; 

 medium, native hay 30 lbs., and oil cake 3 lbs. : narrow, native hay 20 lbs. and 

 oil cake S lbs. 



It was found from flber tests made of the several samples that " the wide- 

 medium-narrow ration experiment shows no decided advantage in strength of 

 wool grown during the feeding of any one of the three rations. The Wyoming- 



