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BULLETIN ON BABY BEEF. 



The Nebraska Experiment Station issued Bulletin 143 on 

 "Feeding- Baby Beef at the North Platte Substation. This bul- 

 letin gives the results of fattening five lots of calves on different 

 forage and grain rations during the winter of 1911 and 1912 and 

 a duplication of this test during the following winter. 



The calves were spring calves put into the feed lots shortly 

 after weaning in the fall and fed until after the middle of June. 

 They were about fourteen months old when sold. The average 

 weight on the market was about 850 pounds. The average sell- 

 ing price was $68.45 per calf. 



The rations fed were as follows : 



Lot 1 — Prairie hay, corn 9 parts, and cottonseed cake 1 part. 



Lot 2 — Alfalfa, prairie hay, and corn. 



Lot 3 — Alfalfa, silage, and corn. 



Lot A — Prairie hay, silage, and corn. 



Lot 5 — Prairie hay, silage, corn 9 parts, and cottonseed cake 

 1 part. 



The net profit per calf including the profit on hogs fed with 

 the lots was as follows : 



Lot 1 — Fed prairie hay, corn 90 per cent, and cottonseed cake 

 10 per cent. Profit per calf, $17.05. 



Lot 2 — Fed prairie hay, alfalfa, and corn. Profit per calf, 

 $20.28. 



Lot 3 — Fed alfalfa, silage, and corn. Profit per calf. $22.21. 



Lot A — Fed prairie hay. silage, and corn. Profit per calf, 

 $11.77. 



Lot 5 — Fed prairie hay, silage, corn 90 per cent, and cotton- 

 seed cake 10 per cent. Profit per calf, $13.82. 



The ration composed of alfalfa, silage and corn gave the 

 fastest and cheapest gains and the most profit per calf. The 

 ration of alfalfa, prairie hay and corn ranked second. The two 

 rations containing alfalfa gave much better results than any 

 ration not containing alfalfa. 



Silage had a much higher value when fed with alfalfa than 

 when fed in rations without alfalfa. 



Cottonseed cake was profitable when fed in rations that did 

 not contain alfalfa, but was not profitable when fed in rations 

 with alfalfa. 



One of the most striking evidences of agricultural advance- 

 ment in the Philippines is the Philippine Agriculturist and For- 

 ester, a magazine published by the student body of the college of 

 agriculture at Los Banos, Laguna. In one number is found a 

 graduating thesis on the cultivated root-producing aroids, to 

 which the native Hawaiian "staff of life" taro belongs — an article 

 of fourteen pages of cyclopedic information, including many 



