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91 



it is not likely that any such general prop- 

 osition can pass the house, although in the 

 senate the large vote from the arid states 

 is a very important factor. 



The power in the house of New York 

 and Pennsylvania amounts to sixty-one 

 votes. In the senate, instead of having 

 sixty one votes, or in that proportion, these 

 great states have only four, while Nevada 

 and Idaho have four. It is therefore evi- 

 dent that the general bill would have much 

 smoother sailing in the senate than it 

 would have in the house. 



Mr. Lacey's bill proposes to authorize 

 the secretary of the interior to select a 

 tract of land not exceeding one million 

 acres, situated in two or more states, or in 

 a state and territory, or wholly within a 

 territory, and to set apart the same as an 

 ' 'experimental national irrigation district. " 



His idea is to make it an inter-state or ter- 

 ritorial proposition, as thereby a district 

 would be selected that a single state could 

 not possibly handle, because the land and 

 water would not be both within the states 

 controlling the work. Of course, the land 

 in a territory would be wholly within con- 

 trol of the national government, and that 

 would make it a national proposition. The 

 secretary, ha ring selected the land and or- 

 ganized an irrigation district, would be 

 empowered by the bill to use wide discre- 

 tion in his method of reclaiming land and 

 furnishing water supply. The land under 

 the bill would be opened to homestead set- 

 tlers: and the secretary would have the 

 right, where the land is fruit land, to re- 

 duce the size of the homestead under the 

 ordinary 160 acre limit. 



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MltLD AflD 



FEEDING 



A New Book by 

 PROF. W. A. HENRY 



of the Wisconsin Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 

 A 650 PAGE BOOK FOR STOCK OWNERS. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS: 



PART III. Feeding Farm Animals. 



PART I. Plant Growth and Animal 

 Nutrition. 



The plant: how it grows and elaborates food for 



animals. 



Mastication, digestion and assimilation. 

 Digestion, respiration and calorimetry. 

 Animal nutrition. 

 The source of muscular energy; composition of 



animals before and after fastening, 

 nfluence of feed on the animal body. 

 Explanation of tables of composition and feeding 



standards -methods of calculating rations for 



farm animals, etc. 



PART II. Feeding Stuffs. 



Leading cereals and their by-products. 



Minor cereals, oil-bearing and leguminous seeds 



and their by-products. 

 Indian corn as a forage plant. 

 The grasses fresh and cured straw. 

 Leguminous plants for green forage and hay. 

 Miscellaneous feeding stuffs. 

 Soiling cattle. Preparation of feeding stuffs. 

 The ensilage of fodders. 

 Manurial value of feeding stuffs. 



Investigations concerning the horse. 



Feeds for the horse. 



Feed and care of the horse. 



Calf-rearing. 



Results of steer-feeding trials at the stations. 



Factors in steer fattening final results. 



Counsel in the feed lot. 



The dairy cow scientific findings. 



Station tests with feeding stuffs for dairy cows. 



Influence of feed on milk wide and narrow 

 rations. 



Public tests of pure bred dairy cows cost of 

 producing milk and fat in dairy herds at vari- 

 ous experiment stations. 



Feed and care of the dairy cow. 



Investigations with sheep. 



Experiments in fattening sheep wool produc- 

 tion 



General care of sheep fattening. 



Investigations with swine. 



Value of various feeding-stuffs for pigs, 



Danish pig-feeding experiments. 



Feeding and management of swine effect oj 

 feed on the carcass of a pig 



The publisher's price of this book is $2.00. We will send 

 you the Irrigation Age for one year, and a copy of "Feeds and 

 Feeding," for $2-50. When you consider that the regular sub- 

 scription price of the AGE is $1.00 per year you will realise 

 what a bargain we offer you. 



