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comparative value of a rather varied ration, a meat ration, a vegetable 

 ration, and a ration of grain alone. The percentage of fertility and 

 analyses of the eggs obtained in the feeding experiments are reported. 



Bulletin #7, pp. 32. — Live Stock Feeding Tests. — Details and results 

 of feeding experiments with (1) 16 steers to learn whether local farm 

 products can profitably be used in finishing range steers for market, 

 and to what extent it is profitable to use grain with clover in a fatten- 

 ing ration, and to compare the relative values of typical beef animals 

 as meat producers with those conforming to the dairy type; (2) 60 

 lambs to test the value of grain supplementing clover in feeding lambs 

 for market; and (3) 21 pigs to compare feeding grain alone, grain with 

 sugar beets, and grain with alfalfa. 



Bulletin 28, pp. 24. — Annual Beport, 1900. — This contains the 

 organization list of the station; a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1900; a list of exchanges; subject list of station bulle- 

 tins, and reports of the director and heads of departments, that of the 

 horticulturist giving lists of the hardy, semihardy, and poor or useless 

 ornamental shrubs and fruits grown at the station, and brief notes on 

 several experiments in progress, that of the agriculturist giving the 

 yields of field crops grown under the Campbell system and under gen- 

 eral methods of culture and in rotation experiments. 



Bulletin 29, pp. 44, pis. 10. — The Quantity of Water Used in Irriga- 

 tion and the Seepage Loss from Canals. — This is an account of investiga- 

 tions made during 1900 under the supervision of the expert in charge 

 of irrigation investigations of this Office. Records are given of obser- 

 vations on the duty of water in the Gallatin and Bitter Root Valleys, 

 in Yellowstone County, and in Middle Creek Canal. A study of the 

 losses due to seepage and evaporation on ^lyq canals, and their relation 

 to the duty of water, is reported, and conditions affecting seepage are 

 discussed. Results for one year of a series of experiments undertaken 

 to determine the proper amount of water to apply to growing crops, 

 and the proper time to irrigate, are also given. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Montana Station has a considerable amount of valuable work in 

 hand, and is keeping itself before the farmers by means of articles 

 prepared for papers, press notices, and successfully conducted farmers' 

 institutes. The institutes were much better attended last year than 

 formerly, and more interest has been aroused by them. The corre- 

 spondence of the station has increased greatly, and there are many 

 evidences of the good will of stockmen and farmers toward it. As the 

 work of this station grows in importance, it is evident that increased 

 financial support should be given to the institution with which it is 

 connected, in order that the station officers may be relieved from col- 

 lege duties to such an extent as to permit them to devote themselves 

 more fully to the station business. 



