666 ESPEBIMENT STATION EECOKD. 



meal, liuseed meal, hominy meal and feed, brewers' and distillers' dried grains, 

 buckwheat middlings, malt sprouts, cotton-seed meal and hulls, molasses feed, 

 wheat bran and middlings, alfalfa meal, ground rye, rye bran and middlings, 

 corn meal, dried beet pulp, buckwheat hulls, oat hulls, cob meal, corn bran, 

 corn-and-cob meal, ground oats, ground flax screenings, ground puffed wheat, 

 ground puffed rice, meat meal, beef scrap, and proprietary mixed feeds. The 

 text of the feeding stuffs law adopted in March, 1912, is included, likewise 

 registrations for 1913. 



The Kansas feeding-stuffs law revision of 1913 (Kansas Sta. Circ. 30, pp. 

 6+7).— This circular gives the text of this law, together with the regulations 

 adopted, definitions of commercial feeds, and explanations of the feed control 

 requirements. 



Western grazing grounds and forest ranges, W. C. Babnes {Chicago, 1913, 

 pp. 300, pis. 6, figs. 116). — This is a very comprehensive volume dealing with 

 western range and forest conditions, in which the author treats of the manage- 

 ment of cattle and sheep on the range, poisonous plants, diseases of cattle and 

 sheep, and related topics. 



Report of the animal husbandman, B. G. Ritzman {Porto Rico Sta. Rpt. 

 1912, pp. 39~42). — This reports favorable results from the crossing of an 

 American saddle-bred stallion and a number of standard-bred trotters upon 

 native mares. The crossing of the zebu upon the Shorthorn and Hereford 

 breeds of cattle has resulted in heavier progeny, one lot of 62 calves weighing 

 between 600 and 700 lbs. each when one year old, as compared with about 400 

 lbs. in those from native bulls. The use of Shorthorn and Guernsey bulls on 

 native foundation is improving the dairy stock. Milk from native cows is 

 reported as being as rich in milk fat as the milk from average dairies in the 

 North. It is stated that poultry can be grown as well in Porto Rico as in the 

 North and that the losses need not be greater if the fowls are properly 

 handled. 



The administrative measures taken in Holland in favor of cattle breeding, 

 F. B. LoHNis {Internat. Inst. Agr. [Rome], Mo. Bui. Agr. Intel, and Plant 

 Diseases, ^ {1913), A'o. 5, pp. 667-673). — In this paper are outlined in brief 

 the methods used in Holland for the encouragement of improved cattle breed- 

 ing. These include the 2 standard Holland herdbooks, bounties granted by the 

 central government to the provincial commissions, the work of breeding and 

 dairy experts, government professors of agriculture, stable competitions, and 

 shows. 



Progress of cattle breeding in Denmark and Sweden, Dade {Arch. Deut. 

 Landw. Rats, 37 {1913), pp. V+312). — This is a statistical report of the export 

 and import trade in dairy and meat products in these countries and a r^sumS 

 of the progress in improved cattle breeding. 



Cattle breeding in Dutch East Africa, G. Lichtenheld (Tropenpflanzer, 17 

 (1913), No. 8, pp. 405-430, figs. 10). — A treatise on the races of cattle in Dutch 

 East Africa, their breed characteristics, body measurements, distribution, care 

 and management, and utility value. 



The past year in the Australian meat trade (Butchers' Advocate, 55 (1913), 

 ]\io. 20, p. 12). — A statistical review of the Australian meat trade in which is 

 noted an increasing development of a trade in frozen meat with the United 

 States. 



Report of the animal husbandman, C. A. Willson (Tennessee Sta. Rpt. 

 1911, pp. 175-177). — As in the previous year, it was found that steers fed in the 

 open made as good gains as those fed under sheds. In comparison with a num- 

 ber of other rations the most economical ration seemed to be silage and cotton- 

 seed meal when the meal is fed in the proportions of 4 lbs. per head per day 



