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statistics of tlio exports, imports, and prices of residues from the millinjj, oil 

 extraction, su^ar making, Ijrewinp:, and distilling industries tliroup;liou( the 

 world. In general the data cover the year 1918 and most of 1919 and continue 

 similar comj)i!ations previously noted (E. S. K., 41, p. 176). 



Proceed! n.ns of the twenty-first and twenty-second annual conventions 

 of the American National Live Stock Association (Pi or. Amcr. Natl. Live 

 Ktork .l.s.soc, 2/ (nuS). pp. JUT. />/.s'. J 6; 22 (1010), pp. J8S, pis. i3).— These pub- 

 lications contain the addresses delivered during meetings held, respectively, at 

 Salt Lake City in January, 1918, and at Denver in January, 1919, together 

 with the committee reports presented and the texts of resolutions adopted. The 

 1918 meeting was concerned largely with the activities of the U. S. Food Admin- 

 istration in live stock matters. 



A list of breeders of pure bred live stock in Montana {Montana Sta. f>pcc. 

 Circ. 5 (1018). pp. ;?//). — The list is classified by l)n'eds. 



Final results of live stock for the year 1918-19, and report thereon, 

 W. L. Johnston (Ho. Aiist. Statis. Dcpt. Bui. 2 (1919), pp. //).— Statistics for 

 the year ended June 30, 1919, as to the numbers of cattle, horses, sheet), pigs, 

 goats, and other stock in the several political divisions of South Australia, 

 together with informatitui on the market prices of stock, tlie w<jo1 clip, and dairy 

 production. 



Swine, sheep, and "cats in the Orient, C. O. Levink (Jonr. Heredity, 11 

 (1920), No. 3, pp. 117-12/f, fifjs. 6). — The author gives an account of the swine 

 industry in southern and western China, together with brief notes on the fat- 

 tailed sheep and the native black and white meat goats of northern China. 



In the vicinity of Canton the native hogs are of the lard type, are black and 

 while in color, and have straight tails. " They are slow in maturing. Twelve^ 

 hogs at the Canton Christian College in 1917 made an average gain, at six 

 mouths of age, of about 0.65 of a pound on full feed. When one year old they 

 usually weigh from 200 to 250 lbs. The average dressing per cent of 32 hogs 

 butchered at the college in 1917 and 1918 was 72.5 per" cent." Females not 

 used for breeding are spayed. Large numbers of hogs are fed by concerns 

 ni.iiuifacturing rice wine. The hogs are fed for 200 to 250 days and when mar- 

 keted weigh from 140 to 200 catties (190 to 270 ll)s.) About 6 lbs. of the 

 dried rice wine by-product grains are required for a i)ound of gain. Otlier hogs 

 are fed by householders in the villages, the feed being mainly a mixture of 

 cheap grades of rice chop and rice bran. 



In Yunnan and Szechuan the hogs, chielly of the bacon type, are allowed to 

 graze in tlie woods. 



Irish cattle, R. C. Auld (Live Stock Jonr. [London], 91 (1920), No. 21,00, pp. 

 ass. -i'/O, .IJfl, Iff). — The author discusses the ancient cattle of Ireland, par- 

 ticularly the polled breed, and discounts the theory of the Scandinavian origin 

 of the polled cattle of Ireland and England. 



Scottish pure bred live stock. — I, Aberdeen-Angus cattle, J. R. Barclay 

 (Scot. Jour. A(jr., 2 (1919), No. Jf, pp. 456-^64, pis. 4).— A history of the breed 

 and its distribution throughout the world, by the secretary of the Aberdeen- 

 Angus Cattle Society. 



Scottish pure bred live stock. — II, Shorthorn cattle, W. Mackay (Scot. 

 'Jour. .-{fir.. 3 (1920), No. 1, pp. d-Ki, pis. .',).— \ history of the Shorthorn in Scot- 

 land, together with a discussion (if the " Scottisii " type anil its popularity in 

 other countries. 



Experiments in crop utilization, C U. Letteeb (U. S. Dept. Agr., Dept. 

 Circ. 73 (1920), pp. 3-MS).— Exi)eriments conducted at San Antonio, Tex., to 

 . determine the value of winter oats and Sudan grass for pasture are reported. 

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