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to the moisture, protein, fat, and fiber content of the following products are 

 given: Alfalfa meal, brewers' dried graRis, yeast dried grains, malt sprouts, 

 buckwheat feed, buckwheat middlings, buckwheat offal, cocoa beau shell meal, 

 coconut oil meal, cottonseed feed, cottonseed meal, corn oil meal, corn feed 

 meal, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, corn and cob meal, hominy feed, dried 

 beet pulp, linseed meal, oat hulls, rye bran, rye middlings, wheat bran, wheat 

 middlings, red dog, wheat mixed feed, and various proprietary mixed feeds, 

 calf meals, and poultry feeds. The moisture, protein, fat, and phosphoric acid 

 in samples of meat scrap, fish scrap, digester tankage, and bone meal are also 

 reported. The sample of cocoa bean shell meal analyzed contained about 15 

 per cent protein, 8 per cent fat, and 14 per cent fiber. 



The prices of 20 feeding stuffs in 1920 and in the four preceding years are 

 tabulated. 



Inspection of commercial feeds, P. H. Wesskls {Rhode Island Sta. Ann- 

 Feed Circ, 1920, pp. S-11). — This is a report on the protein and fat content of 

 samples of feeding stuffs collected in 1919. The materials include cottonseed 

 meal and feed, corn gluten feed, hominy feed, brewers' and other dried grains, 

 wheat bran, wheat bran with screenings, wheat middlings, wheat shorts, oat 

 hulls, rye feed, and various proprietary stock, calf, and poultry feeds. 



Proceedings of the twenty-third annual convention of the American 

 National Live Stock Association (Amer. Natl. Live Stock Assoc. Proc., 23 

 {1920), pp. 191, pis. 10). — This publication contains the addresses made during 

 the Spokane meeting in January, 1920, together with the committee reports 

 presented and the texts of resolutions adopted. Proposed legislation regulating 

 the meat-packing industry and the apportionment of grazing lands were the 

 main topics discussed. 



Loss of Aveight by live stock during transportation, Kuppelmayr {Ztschr. 

 Fleisch u. Milchhyg., 30 {1919), Nos. 5, pp. 65-68; 6, pp. 81-85).— The author 

 cites numerous data as to the shrinkage of cattle and sheep sent to market for 

 slaughter, showing particularly the relation of shrinkage to duration of the 

 trip. 



Cattle feeding [at North Platte Substation] {Nebraska Sta. Rpt., 1919, p. 

 26). — A group of 25 2-year-old grade Hereford steers maintained their weight 

 for 80 days in winter on a ration of 15 lbs. of wheat straw and 1 lb. of cotton- 

 seed cake. 



Value of elevator screenings in the ration, E. S. Hayter {Canada Expt. 

 Farms, Seaso7iable Hints No. 17 {1920), pp. 11, 12). — A lot of eight steers fed 

 elevator screenings during a fattening period of 114 days at the Morden, Mani- 

 toba, Experimental Station made an average daily gain of 1.77 lbs. per head, 

 while a similar lot fed the same amount of oat chop gained 1.38 lbs. Each lot 

 received equal amounts of corn silage, hay, and oat straw. The screenings 

 contained high percentages of shrunken and broken wheat kernels and wild 

 buckwheat seeds. 



A defect of hair and teeth in cattle, probably hereditary, L. J. Cole 

 {Jour. Heredity, 10 {1919), No. 7, pp. 303-306, figs. 5).— Three calves, all sired 

 by the one Holstein bull, showed, respectively, two, three, and four incisors 

 that were small in size and in one case conical in form. When young these 

 calves and two others (whose teeth were not examined) sired by the same bull 

 had very short hair on the neck and parts of the head. The bull, wheii ex- 

 amined at 3 years of age, had only five incisors, three on the left and two on 

 the right side, all small in size. The dams are thought to have been normal, 

 and a number of normal calves were sired by the bull. 



It was recalled that the bull, when a year old, became very thin on pasture 

 which kept other cattle in good condition. 



