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fuel value of 144 calories per pound as compared with 94.12, 0.5, and 0.15 per 

 ceut, respectively, and 79 calories fuel value for the stock melon. 



Nutrients in green shoots of trees, E. J. Petry {Proc. Ind. Acad. SeL, 

 1911, pp. 321-32^). — Analyses are reported of air-dry and green samples of 

 shoots from 24 species of trees and undergrowth. The author states that " these 

 shoots compare very favorably with the other green feeds usually fed." Several 

 of these species show a favorable protein content. 



Molasses as a feeding material, S. Weiser {Osterr. Ungar. Ztschr. Znckcr- 

 indus. u. Landtv., 42 {1913), JVo. 3, pp. 462-521). — The author gives analyses of 

 various kinds of molasses, discusses the value of. molasses as a feed for stock, 

 and summarizes the results of previous experiments in the feeding of cattle, 

 sheep, horses, and swine. There is included a list of a number of rations com- 

 bining grain and molasses in various proportions. 



Anaylses of feeding stufEs, B. L Hartwell {Rhode Island Sta. Insp. Bui. 

 1913, May, pp. 2-16). — Analyses are reported of meat and bone scrap, cotton- 

 seed meal, linseed meal, gluten feed, malt sprouts, brewers' grains, middlings, 

 bran, mixed feeds, hominy feed, corn meal, chopped alfalfa, alfalfa meal, dried 

 beet pulp, and horse, dairy, stock, and poultry feed. 



Studies in methods of developing stock-watering places, J. T. Jardine 

 (U. S. Dcpt. Afff., Rev. Forest Serv. Investigations, 2 {1913), pp. 29-32).— 

 Methods of cleaning and fencing a spring hole, the construction and placement 

 of troughs, and other subjects related to stock watering in the forest reserves 

 are considered. 



Text-book of animal production, G. Pusch {LehrMch dcr AUgemeinen 

 Ticrzuclit. Stuttgart, 1911, 2. ed., rev. and enl., pp. XV-\-480, figs. 2/9).— The 

 first edition of this work has been previously abstracted (B. &'. R., 16, p. 586). 



Reversion in animal breeding, E. N. Wentworth {Breeder's Gaz., 64 

 {1913), No. 5, pp. IBS, 169). — The author discusses the problem of reversion 

 with reference to practical animal breeding operations and shows wherein this 

 character " as a definite and deleterious force does not probably exist, the ap- 

 pearance being due to the simple forces at work in normal heredity." It is 

 further contended that "reversion is not something which breeders mu.st feel 

 is a force fighting their efforts, but instead is a customary operation of the 

 same laws by which their progress comes." 



Investigations on the form and functioning duties of the tendons of the 

 limbs of work animals, R. Disselhorst {Kilhn Arch., 3 {1913), pt. 1, pp. 

 1-5). — The author reports investigations on the form and function of the ten- 

 dons of Achilles and of the anterior limb of the horse and ox. and of horses of 

 different degrees of purity of breeding. It was found that the specific weights 

 of these tendons were lower in older animals and uniformly higher in the 

 flexor tendon of the posterior limb than in the anterior limb, and that the spe- 

 cific weight of the tendon was higher in pure-bred than in mongrel horses. 



[Animal industry in Russia], T. Larrass and Auhagen {Jahrb. Dent. 

 Landw. Gesell., 28 {1913), No. 1, pp. 176-202, pis. 2).— An account of sheep 

 breeding and general animal production in Russia. 



[Live stock in Australia] {Rpt. Scot. Agr. Com. Aiist., 1910-11, pp. 190-228, 

 figs. 11). — In this report a resume is given of live stock conditions in Australia, 

 with an account of the different breeds of cattle and sheep and the extent of 

 the wool industry in that country. 



Cattle raising in Jamaica, T. G. M. Robertson {BuL Dept. Agr. Jamaica, n. 

 ser., 2 {1913), No. 6, pp. 155-158). — An account of the advantages accruing 

 from the crossing of pure and half-bred Shorthorn, Hereford, and Devon bulls 

 with native Indian stock. Calf mortality is said to be lessened and the beef 

 quality increased. 



