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Kansas State Live Stock Registry Board, F. W. Bell {Kanfias Sta. Insp. 

 Circ. 11 (1919), pp. 127). — This publication contains a list of all the stallions 

 licensed in Kansas during the calendar year 1919, the text of the State law 

 requiring registration and licensing, a statistical discussion showing that in 1910 

 when the registration law went into effect only 40.8 per cent of the licensed 

 stallions were pure bred whereas in 1919 the percentage was 67.4, and the pro- 

 ceedings of the annual meeting of the Kansas Horse Breeders' Association. The 

 latter includes an address by G. M. Rommel, on The Horse Situation as I saw 

 it in Europe (p. 10). European demand for American horses is prophesied. 



[Sunflower silage and frozen fish for] poultry, M. J. Thompson (Minne- 

 sota Sta., Rpt. Duluth Substa., 1918-19, p. 24, fig. 1). — It is reported that sun- 

 flower silage forms a good winter substitute for green feed in poultry feeding. 

 The sunflowers were ensiled in barrels, each holding about 350 lbs. Frozen fish 

 was also fed successfully during the winter in place of meat scrap. 



The value of soy bean meal as a feed for chicks, B. F. Kaupp (Poultry 

 Item, 21 (1919), No. 9, pp. 6, 7). — The growth, feed consumption, and mortality 

 records of nine broods of Buff Plymouth Rock chicks hatched at different dates 

 in 1916 and fed a mash of soybean meal and sweet skim milk are reported. These 

 chicks average 1.3 lbs. in weight at eight weeks, while two broods fed rolled 

 oats and sweet skim milk, average 1.15 lbs. It is concluded that soy beau meal 

 can replace rolled oats in chick feeding. 



Some practical data on the amount of feed required to jiroduce a dozen 

 eggs by hens of different breeds, B. F. Kaupp (Poultry Item, 22 (1919), No. 2, 

 pp. 5-7). — The author averages by variety and year the annual feed consump- 

 tion and egg production in 1915-16 to 191S-19 of flocks of Silver Campines, 

 Wj'andotte (3 varieties), Plymouth Rock (3 varieties), Buff Orpington, Black 

 Spanish, Mottled Houdan, and White Leghorn hens at the North Carolina Experi- 

 ment Station and gives one year's results with Rhode Island Reds. Averaging 

 all the data it was found that 544 Campines and Leghorns consumed 74 lbs. of 

 feed per hen per year and producetl a dozen eggs on 9.8 lbs. of feed. The annual 

 average consumption of the 414 birds of the large breeds was 67.6 lbs. and a 

 dozen eggs were produced for every 12.1 lbs. of feed. 



Breeding for egg production. C. H. Burgess (Michigan Sta. Quart. Bill., 

 2 (1920), No. 4, pp. 190-192, fig. r). — Improvement in winter egg production in 

 three generations of selected Barred Plymouth Rocks and Single Comb White 

 Leghorns is reported. 



Egg-laying tests at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, eighteenth year's 

 results, 1919-20, F. H. Harvey and .1. Hadlington (Agr. Gaz. N. S. Wales, 

 31 (1920), No. 5, pp. 353-368, figs. 6; also in Dept. Agr. N. S. Wales, Farmer's 

 Bui. 131 (1920), pp. 26, figs. 6). — This is a discussion of the New South Wales 

 contest concluded March 31, 1920. Monthly individual egg records are tabu- 

 lated of 540 pullets. The testing of second-year hens, a feature of the previous 

 contests (E. S. R., 42, p. 874), was abandoned, and the space thus made available 

 was used to house a new section composed of standard-bred pullers, i. e., pullets 

 bred by persons who had won prizes by exhibiting the breeds which they entered 

 in the contest. The egg records of these pullets are considered very satisfactory. 



Studies on the inheritance of egg-weight. — I, Normal distribution of 

 egg-weight, P. Hadley and D. W. Caldweul (Rhode Island Sta. Bui. 181 

 (1920), pp. 5-64. pl- 1, figs. 4t). — This bulletin deals primarily with the weights 

 of the individual eggs laid year after year by an unselected flock of 39 White 

 Plymouth Rock hens hatched in May, 1910. Two hens survived to lay in their 

 eighth year. Incidental use is also made of some data secured from descendants 

 of the flock. 



