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"That the [soft] corn was affected by the frost and of a chaffy nature is noticeable 

 when the weight of a measured bushel is taken. An average of several tests made 

 to determine the weight per measured bushel showed it to be but 51 lbs." 



Corn dries when stored, and a test was made of the amount of moisture lost by 4 

 varieties in 9 months from the time it was husked and cribbed. The total loss of 

 water varied from 21.09 per cent of the amount originally present with Iowa Silver 

 Mine to 22.05 per cent with MammotK Eed. 



Cocoa-sliell milk for calves, H. H. Dean {Ontario Agr. Col. and Expt. Farm Rpt. 

 1903, pp. 73, 74)- — Two calves fed daily in addition to some grain and green feed, 

 1.5to2 gal. of a decoction of cocoa shells made by boiling 0.25 lb. of the shells in 2 gal. 

 of water, gained 135 lbs. in 8 weeks. Under similar circumstances 2 calves fed 1.5 

 to 2 gal. of skim milk per day in addition to other feeds gained 1-18 lbs. in 8 weeks. 

 The cocoa-shell decoction (cocoa-shell milk) when fed with grain and green feed 

 "appears to be a very good substitute for skim milk and is worthy of a trial by 

 those farmers who wish to rear calves and have little or no skim milk to feed. 

 However, there is probably no substitute which will entirely take the place of milk 

 for young stock." 



Profitable stock feeding, H. P. Smith {Breeder^ s Oaz., 45 {1904), No. 20, pp. 946, 

 946, figs. 6). — The value on the block of beef carcasses of different types is discussed 

 with special reference to different factors as a means of judging of the quality of the 

 meat. 



Experiments with, swine, M. Gumming {Ontario Agr. Col. and Expt. Farm Rpt. 

 1903, pp. S1-S4). — The value of blood meal and tankage as compared with skim milk 

 was tested with 7 lots of 5 \Ags each, those in 5 of the lots averaging 33 lbs. in weight 

 and those in the remaining 2 lots 21 lbs. each. The blood meal and tankage used 

 were obtained in Chicago and were designed especially for use as feeding stuffs. 

 These by-products, with and without skim milk, were added to a basal ration of 

 grain (at firsi middlings and later barley) and compared with a similar ration of 

 grain and skim milk 1 to 2. The light-weight pigs were fed the packing-house 

 by-products in the proportion of about 1 lb. to 18 lbs. of grain, and the heavy pigs in 

 the proportion of about 1 to 13. When fe<l with skim milk, the proportion of packing- 

 house by-products was one-half as large as in the case of the light-weight pigs. In 

 the 137 days of the test the total gain of the lot on blood meal and grain was 817 

 lbs., that of the 2 lots fed tankage and grain 790 and 716 lbs., of the lots fed skim 

 milk and grain 712 and 744 lbs., and of the lots fed blood meal and tankage with 

 skim milk and grain 695 and 800 lbs., respectively. The cost of a pound of gain 

 ranged from 4.08 cts. with one of the lots fed tankage and grain to 5.4 cts. with one 

 of the lots fed skim milk and grain and was in general higher with the lots fed skim 

 milk than with the others. The grain consumed per pound of gain ranged from 

 3.53 lbs. Avith the lot fed grain and blood meal to 4.59 lbs. with one of the lots fed 

 skim milk and grain. Among the author's conclusions were the following: 



"The pigs, without exception, took to the blood meal and tankage from the very 

 first with great avidity. There is nothing in this experiment to indicate which is 

 the more valuable food, blood meal or tankage. In both cases where light-weight 

 piga were fed in comparison with heavier pigs, cheaper gains were made by the 

 former. 



"Blood meal and tankage have proven themselves fully equal to skim milk for the 

 production of firm bacon, and, so far as this experiment is concerned, have produced 

 cheaper gains. 



"This is but a single experiment, and will have to be repeated several times before 

 any reliable results can be announced." 



In the above test the author notes that a little green feed was given the pigs each 

 day and "seems to have been most beneficial," 



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