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" These tables make it possible for auy farmer or breeder to analyze the 

 pedigree of his stock by the method of inbreediii;; coerticients without any 

 arithmetical computation on his part beyond the simple addition of a column 

 of figures." 



Analyses of fodder plants, grasses, ensilages, etc., J. C. Bbunnich {Ann. 

 Rpt. Dept. Agr. and Stock [Queensland], 1912-13, pp. 72, 7.5). — Complete 

 analyses are given of the following feeding materials: Ditch millet (Paspalum 

 scrohiculatum) ; cockshin grass {Panicum crus-f;alH) ; barley grass (P. de- 

 compositum) ; P. diuaricatissimum ; P. flavidum ; P. foUofmm; brown top 

 (PolUnia fuJva) ; scented golden beard {Chrysopogoii parviflorus) ; Johnson 

 grass {Sorghum halepense) ; S. plumosuvi; tall oat grass {Anthifitiria avena- 

 cca) ; kangaroo grass {A. ciliata) ; Agropyron scabrum ; Stipa aristiglumis; 

 bamboo grass {S. micrantha) ; Deyeuxm forsterii; white top {Danthonia pal- 

 lida) ; Rhodes grass {Chloris gayana) ; stink grass {Eragrostis major) ; arrow- 

 root bagasse, silage; wheat, thistles, and wild mustard; pumpkin (cow, crown, 

 and silver) ; green fodder (cape barley and cowpea) ; and Indian and seedling 

 cane. 



Report of commercial feed stuffs {Louisiana Stas. Feed Stuffs Rpt. 1912-13, 

 pp. 132). — This bulletin reports analyses on 12,226 samples of the following 

 feeding stuffs: Cotton-seed meal and feed, rice bran, rice polish, wheat bran, 

 wheat middlings, corn chop, molasses feeds, hominy feeds, brewers' grains, al- 

 falfa meal, blood meal, meat scrap, bone meal, tankage, dried beet pulp, and 

 various mixed and proprietary feeds. 



Feeding stuff analyses, edited by H. B. McDonnell {Md. Agr. Col. Quart., 

 No. 62 {1913), pp. 11). — ^Analyses are reported of the following feeding stuffs: 

 Bee^ scrap, gluten feed, linseed meal, dried brewers' grains, meat meal, cotton- 

 seed meal, molasses feeds, dried beet pulp, tankage, and various proprietary 

 stock feeds. 



Process of raising the nutritive value of brewery grains, and also of 

 treating spent hops, malt dust, dust obtained in cleaning" cereals and the 

 like, and obtaining a feed for cattle, M. Hamburg {English Patents 29,996, 

 Dec. 30, 1912; 14,808, June 26, 1913; abs. in Jour. Soc. Chem. Indus., 32 {1913), 

 No. 22, p. 1081). — A report of a patented process in which "ten parts of 

 pressed and washed yeast are heated to from 50 to 60" C, and stirred until a 

 liquid mass is obtained ; this is mixed with 90 parts of wet grains, spent hops, 

 malt dust, or the like, and the mixture is pressed and dried at a low tempera- 

 ture. The yeast may also be mixed with the grains, or with the other sub- 

 stances and a suitable quantity of water, before it is heated." 



Yeast combination for use as a feed for animals, F. Gothard {English 

 Patent 2,8^8, Feb. J,, 1913; abs. in Jour. Soc. Chem. Indus., 32 {1913), No. 22, 

 p. 1082). — A patented process in which "cattle feed is prepared by drying and 

 grinding a mixture of yeast, 50 ; peat moss, 25 ; and hop meal, 25 per cent." 



Manufacture of a cattle feed, with simultaneous recovery of cellulose, 

 resin, etc., from cellulose-containing materials, J. Konig {German Patent 

 265,483, Feb. 15, 1912; abs. in Jour. Soc. Chem. Indus., 32 {1913), No. 22, p. 

 1063). — "Wood, especially the wood of conifers, is heated, if necessary under 

 pressure, first with dilute alkalis, chiefly ammonia, and then with dilute min- 

 eral acid, or first with acid and then with alkali, as far as possible in stoichio- 

 metrical proportions. The residue is subjected to the usual bleaching process, 

 and the spent liquors are evaported, either separately or together, and with or 

 without addition of other substances suitable for use as cattle feed." 



Comparative experiments on the digestibility of rye and wheat and of 

 the ground meal for sheep and swine, F. Honcamp, P. Neumann, and H. 



