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meal, meat scrap, fish scrap, gluten feed, linseed oil meal, provender, oat bulla, 

 and various mixed and proprietary feeds. 



Analyses of commercial feeding stuffs, P. H. Wessels and F. O. Fitts 

 (Rhode Island Sta. Insp. Bui., 1916, May, pp. 12 ) .—Analyses are given of the 

 following feeding stuffs : Fish scrap, meat scrap, cotton-seed meal, linseed meal, 

 gluten feed, dried brewers' and distillers' grains, wheat middlings, bran, prov- 

 ender, hominy feed, ground oats, sugar-beet meal, oat hulls, dried beet pulp, 

 and alfalfa meal, and various proprietary and mixed feeds. 



Stock raising {U. S. Dept. Int., Rpt. Comr. Indian Aff., 1915, pp. 28, 29).— A 

 general account of the status of stock raising on the various Indian reserva- 

 tions. It is stated that Indian stock has been so successfully managed since 

 the policy of increasing stock raising among the Indians was inaugurated 

 some two years ago as to justify the undertaking fully. Inspections and reports 

 show the tribal herds and individually owned cattle, horses, and sheep to be 

 rapidly improving in breed, increasing in number, and showing a gratifying 

 profit on the investment. It is predicted that the Indian-owned stock will 

 soon become a substantial factor in the world's supply. 



Cattle-feeding experiment, 1914^15, W. Bbuce (Edinb. and East of Scot. 

 Col. Agr. Rpt. Leaflet, Ser. C, No. 1 {1915), pp. 4)- — In cattle-feeding experi- 

 ments comparing the value of various rations (palm-nut cake, dried dis- 

 tillers' gi-ains, chaffed hay and Bombay cotton cake, and Bombay cotton cake) 

 the dried distillers' grains proved a cheaper feeding stufi; than Bombay cotton 

 cake. The results indicate that palm-nut cake (palm-kernel cake) is a useful 

 feeding stuff and that apparently it is practically equal in value to the best 

 class of dried distillers' grains, which it somewhat resembles in composition. 

 It is stated that cattle do not eat this cake when it is first put before them, 

 but that in a few days they take it quite readily, and that there appears to be 

 no practical difficulty in feeding it to fattening steers when they are accus- 

 tomed to it from the beginning of the fattening period. 



Report on cattle-feeding experiments conducted at Crichton Farm, Dum- 

 fries, 1911-1915, W. G. R. Paterson (West of Scot. Agr. Col. Bui. 67 (1915), 

 pp. Jf2, pi. 1). — In three series of cattle-feeding experiments, comparing the 

 value of decorticated and undecorticated cotton cakes, soy-bean cake, and lin- 

 seed cake, decorticated cotton cake and soy-bean cake each proved superior 

 to a mixture of linseed cake and undecorticated cotton cake, even when 1 lb. 

 additional of the mixture was fed. The difference between decorticated cotton 

 cake and soy-bean cake was not very great but the balance was in favor of 

 the former. The return for every ton of oats, hay, straw, and turnips was 

 very much greater when fed with decorticated cotton cake than when fed with 

 a mixture of linseed cake and undecorticated cotton cake. 



Palm-nut cake proved to be inferior to a mixture of decorticated cotton cake 

 and crushed oats. 



"Bulldog" cattle (Jour. Heredity, 7 (1916), No. 6, pp. 263-265, figs. 2).— 

 An account of the Niata breed of cattle, described by Darwin. This breed is 

 supposed to have arisen among the Indians of South America, but is now be- 

 coming extinct. The extraordinary .iaw and face are thought to be due to muta- 

 tion. 



Mathematical selection of Swiss cattle (Breeder's Gaz., 69 (1916), No. 18, 

 p. 958. figs. 3). — A method of appraising cattle by means of a rational mathe- 

 matical system has recently been adopted by the Swiss Government. The pur- 

 Iiose of the method is to determine and express in decimals the correlations 

 which exist between the conformation of the different parts of the body of the 

 animal and its fitness. The instrument deemed most practical for this is the 



