862 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



in the normal and in the fasting condition, R. S. Briggs (Jour. Biol. Chem., 

 20 (1915), No. 1, pp. 7-11). — This continues the above, giving the average 

 percentage of the various proteins in the sera of the pigeon, rooster, and 

 guinea fowl during normal and fasting j^eriods. 



The weights of newborn calves, sheep, goats, and pigs, J. Richteb and A. 

 Bkaueb (Jahrb. Wis.s. u. I'rakt. Ticrzucht, 9 (191 J,), pp. 91-131, pis. 2). — This 

 article reports studies made of the weights of newborn calves, sheep, goats, and 

 pigs, comparing the initial weight with their aftergrowth. A bibliography of 

 42 references is included. 



Texas feeding stufEs; their composition and utilization, G. S. Fbaps (Texas 

 8ta. Bui. no (1914), PP- 34). — This bulletin contains a discussion of the com- 

 position of Texas feeding stuffs, their utilization and values, the calculation of 

 balanced rations, and tables showing the composition, coefficients of digesti- 

 bility, and feeding values. 



Sugar as a feed stuff, F. Lehmann (Ztschr. Landw. Kammer Braunsch/weig., 

 83 (19U), Nos. 34, pp. 360-362; 35, pp. 367-369; abs. in Mitt. Ver. Deut. 

 Schweineziichter, 21 (1914), No. 23, pp. 398-401). — Successful experiments are 

 repoited in which swine were fed from 0.25 to 0.5 kg. of sugar per day, together 

 with a grain ration. It is estimated that the sugar effected an average gain of 

 0.332 kg. per kilogram of sugar fed. It is thought that the sugar raises the 

 digestibility coefficient of the entire ration. 



[Fish as a cattle food] (Nature [London], 94 (1914), No. 2355, p. 430). — 

 It is stated that in Shetland and Iceland, dry salt fish is fed to cattle, sheep, 

 and horses. Early experiments by Lawes are cited which demonstrated that 

 fish-fed pigs were fat and well ripened. Heifers which had been on fish diet for 

 six months showed an average increase of weight of 54 lbs. per head as against 

 70 lbs. for normally fed animals. 



The use of fish as cattle food, R. C. Wood (Agr. Jour. India, 9 (1914), A'o 4, 

 pp. 356-361). — It was demonstrated that the addition of f lb. of ground fish 

 to a basal ration of rice bran when fed to heifers increased their weight prac- 

 tically as much as an ordinary feed. No ill effects followed the addition of 

 fish to the ration for cattle and after a little time no trouble was experienced 

 in getting the cattle to eat it freely. As a fattening feed, it was found not to 

 compare favorably with peanut meal. 



The question of the digestibility of turf, S. GoY (Landu: Jahrb.. 46 (1914), 

 No. 3, pp. 403-408). — The author reviews investigations on the digestibility of 

 turf and shows vi^herein it has a depressing influence on the digestibility of the 

 nutrients, the ferments being rendered less efficient when a large quantity of 

 this material is fed. 



[Analyses of feed stuffs], R. E. Rose (Ann. Rpt. f^tate Chem. Fla., 1914. pp. 

 107-135). — Analyses are i*eported of cotton-seetl meal, beef scrap, bran, mid- 

 dlings, dried beet pulp, velvet beans, oats, chops, wheat. Para grass hay. dried 

 distillers' slop, shipstuff, molasses feed, alfalfa meal, shorts, linseed meal, rice 

 meal, and various mixed and proprietary feeds. 



Commercial feeds, J. M. Pickel (Bui. N. C. Dept. Agr., 35 (1914), ^'O- ^0, 

 pp. 73). — Analyses are reported of wheat bran, middlings, shorts, red dog flour, 

 shipstuff, molasses feed. corn, cracked corn, corn chops, corn bran, gluten feed, 

 beet pulp, rice meal, rice polish, rice bran, wheat, oats, wheat screenings, floor 

 sweei^ngs, and various mixetl and proprietary feeds. 



[Beport of] department of animal husbandry (Oregon Sta. Rpt. 1913-1914, 

 pp. 21, 22). — In an experiment comparing skim milk and tankage as supple- 

 mental feeds for swine, equal nutrients being fed, lot 1 made a total of 669 lbs. 

 gain, consuming 2.72 lbs. of barley and 6.31 lbs. of skim milk per pound of 



