EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



A fact of special interest brought out by the bulletin is that a number of Hawaiian 

 feeding stuffs, particularly those belonging to the grass family, are deficient in lime, 

 and that the failure to obtain the best results, which has sometimes been noticed with 

 a ration which was apparently well balanced, maybe attributed to this cause. In 

 order to secure the best results in bone development, health, etc., the author believes 

 that such feeding stuffs should be supplemented by others richer in lime, as legum- 

 inous plants, algeroba beans, and sugarhouse by-products, or by the use of more lime 

 either in the drinking water, mixed with the feeds used, or applied to the soils pro- 

 ducing the forage crops. 



"While the analyses reported in this bulletin are not considered sufficiently numer- 

 ous to warrant any extended comparison of Hawaiian feeding stuffs with one another 

 or with those of other regions, or to justify elaborate discussion of the best ways of 

 utilizing the various feeding stuffs in Hawaiian practice, they do show that the 

 Hawaiian feeder has at his command a quite large and varied assortment of feeding 

 stuffs, many of which are of high nutritive value, and it is believed that the informa- 

 tion given in the bulletin will aid the feeder in selecting from the feeding stuffs 

 available those which will give him the cheapest and most efficient rations for his 

 stock." 



Analysis of fodder plants, E. A. Manx {Jour. Dept. Agr. West. Aust., 13 (1906), 

 No. 2, pp. 142-145). — Among the plants analyzed were black boy leaves, grass tree 

 leaves, African wonder grass, and Eragrostis jnlosa. 



Feeding- stuff inspection, C. D. Woods and J. M. Bartlett (Maine Sta. Bui. 

 129, pp. 81-100). — Under the State feeding stuff law analyses were made of a number 

 of samples of cotton-seed meal, cotton-seed feed, linseed meal, viscid oil meal, gluten 

 meals and feeds, distillers' grains, molasses feeds, mixed and proprietary feeds, corn 

 meal, hominy meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings, mixed wheat feed, oats, beef scrap, 

 and similar goods. 



With the exception of samples of cotton-seed meal submitted by jobbers for the 

 purpose of learning their quality, the authors state that they found no cotton-seed 

 meal which was below the Cotton-seed Crushers' Association standard for prime 

 goods. 



Inspection of concentrates, J. B. Lindsey et al. (Massachusetts Sta. Bui. 10S,pp. 

 51). — The concentrated feeds analyzed under the State law include blood meal, cotton- 

 seed meal, linseed meal, oil meal, viscid oil meal, gluten meal and feed, brewers' and 

 distillers' dried grains, malt sprouts, wheat middlings, mixed wheat feeds, wheat bran, 

 dairy feeds, sugar feeds, rye feeds, buckwheat feeds, calf meal, corn meal, hominy 

 meal, provender, corn and oat feeds, oat feeds, dried beet pulp, corn bran and similar 

 goods, cereal breakfast food by-products, meat scraps and similar goods, dried fish, 

 granulated milk, poultry feeds, and alfalfa and clover meals. 



The various corn and oat feeds, the authors state, may be divided into two classes, 

 namely, those consisting largely of oat refuse with some corn, frequently of low 

 quality, and occasionally a little red dog middlings, and those consisting principally 

 of hominy, to which has been added more or less oat offal. The feeding stuffs 

 included in the first class have a rancid, bitter taste, while those in the second group 

 are generally sweet and more attractive. Such goods are inferior to clean, bright 

 corn or hominy meal, yet, as the authors point out, they cost nearly or quite as 

 much. 



"Alfalfa [meals], as well as clover meals, are now obtainable for winter feeding. 

 The former should carry 18 per cent protein, and the latter 12 per cent. Preference 

 should be given to bright, clean lots, free from excess of coarse, woody stalks. The 

 price ($1.80 a hundred) is rather in excess of their value. Poultrymen, by raising 

 corn and clover, can considerably reduce their outlay for food. . . . 



"Molasses may constitute one-sixth to one-fourth of the grain ration for horses 

 (one pint to one quart daily). A larger quantity tends to make them logy. The 

 same amount may be fed daily as a constituent of the grain ration for dairy stock." 



