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and cai'e in wiutei" baby beef can be produced at a protit on high-priced laud. 

 The silo is deenietl as important on a beef as on a dairy farm. The summer 

 season is the best time for the fattening period. " 01)viously the man who 

 raises cattle on high-priced land should feed them out as baby beef, and would 

 have occasion to raise and feed in the same connection a large number of hogs, 

 the legume area being especially adapted to the growing and finishing of hogs 

 with a minimum loss from disease and with a maximum profit." 



Experiments with, diastasolin in the feeding of calves, E. Haselhoff 

 {FilhUng's Landw. Ztg., 51 (1908), No. 19, pp. 6'f7-665). — A ration of skim 

 milk and diastasolin was much cheaper than whole milk, although at the com- 

 mencement of the feeding i)eriod faster gains were made with the whole milk. 



Mendelian characters among- Shorthorn cattle, J. Wilson (Sci. Proc. Roy. 

 Dublin Soc, n. .s-cr., 11 {1908), Xo. 28. pp. 317-324). — The author has studied the 

 data in volume 52 of the Shorthorn Herd Book to see if the INIendelian in- 

 heritance of coat color would throw any light on the origin of Shorthorn cattle. 

 The results as expressed in Mendelian form are as follows : 95 reds crossed by 

 reds produced 90 reds and 5 roans, 1 white crossed by white produced 1 white, 

 78 reds crossed by whites produced 78 roans, 370 roans crossed by roans pro- 

 duced 90 reds, 178 roans, and 102 whites, 426 roans crossed by reds produced 

 214 reds, 209 roans, and 3 whites, 53 roans crossed by whites produced 34 roans 

 and 19 whites. These ratios show that the roan Shorthorn is a hybrid between 

 two races, one white, the other red. 



" It may be of some interest to show the colors of the calves when reds are 

 crossed by roans — first, when 'the bull is red, and secondly, when the bull is 

 roan. They are as follows: 150 red bulls produced from 150 roan cows, 86 

 reds, 03 roans, 1 white; 276 roan bulls produced from 276 red cows, 128 reds, 

 146 roans, and 2 whites." 



Inheritance of coat color in the cattle of East Flanders, C. Van Damme 

 (Rev. Gen. Agron., n. ser., 3 (1908), No. 9, pp. .363-365). —From a study of the 

 herd book of the federation of breeders' associations of East Flanders for the 

 years 1905-1907, the author finds that the red and white piebald is a very 

 predominant color. When both parents were red and white the offspring were 

 96 per cent red and white, 2 per cent blue-gray, and 2 per cent black piebald. 

 Blue-gray males crossed with blue-gray females gave 50 per cent blue-gray, 20 

 per cent black or black pieliald, 20 per cent red piebald, and 10 per cent white. 

 Blue-gray males crossed with black piebald females gave 40 per cent black or 

 black piebald, 32 per cent blue-gray, 22 per cent red piebald, and (! per cent 

 white. Blue-gray males crossed with red piebald females gave 44 per cent red 

 piebald, 20 per cent black or black piebald, 26 per cent blue, and 10 per cent 

 white. 



Cattle breeding in Zambi (Btil. Off. Etat Indepcnd. Congo, 2.'f (1908), No. 

 6-9, Sup., pp. 195-200, pi. 1).—The region about Zambi had 653 head of cattle 

 January 1, 1908, a gain of 444 in the last 3 years. There are three types of 

 cattle. The polled cattle are good grazers. Those with large well-formed horns 

 are well adapted for dairying. The natui'al pastures are of good quality. On 

 the bottom lands is a native grass, Impcrata cylindrica, which is palatable when 

 young and tender, but the best pastures are on the hillsides and high lands. 



Ration experiments with lambs, 1906-7, G. E. Morton (Wyoming Sta. 

 Bui. 79, pp. 3-lJ,, figs. 3).— Feeding tests since 1905-6 (E. S. R., 19, p. 266) are 

 reported, each test lasting 14 weeks. When Shropshire-Merino lambs were 

 divided into 2 lots of 40 each, the one receiving a ration of native hay. oats, and 

 oil meal made an average gain per head of 20.3 lbs. at a cost of 6.63 cts. per 

 pound, and the lot fed alfalfa hay and corn gained 34.3 lbs. per he:ul at a 

 cost of 4.26 cts. per pound. Of 2 lots of grade Cotswold lambs of 40 each, the 



