THE IEEIGATION AGE. 



337 



root rather than the stems, and if 

 the root is sound, the stem may go. 

 A large, ungainly shrub may often be 

 made handsome by cutting it to the 

 ground and allowing it to grow up 

 again. 



Most shrubs not planted in hedge 

 form are better in appearance if not 

 pruned at all. With ordinary shrubs 

 pruning should be the exception 

 rather than the rule. If in planting, 

 there has been a loss of roots, the 

 top should be cut back enough to 

 balance them, but usually shrubs are 

 hardy enough so that they are as well 

 let alone. At other times, there must 

 be very good excuse for pruning. 

 Cutting back spiraeas or lilacs in 

 winter or spring is only cutting off 

 their flowers, without helping the 

 plants much. Most of all, no shrub 

 other than a hedge plant should be 

 sheared round or flat. Nothing can 

 equal in beauty the natural form. 



FEEDING WORK HORSES. 



The Iowa Experiment Station has 

 been conducting a series of experi- 

 ments in feeding work horses. It has 

 been found that oats are too expen- 

 sive to feed in large quantities, and 

 that the ration may be greatly cheap- 

 ened by substituting oil meal, cotton 

 seed meal, or gluten feed. The health, 

 spirit, and endurance of the horses 

 was the same when fed corn in com- 

 bination with one of these feeds as 

 when oats were fed. These experi- 

 ments show that oil meal may be 

 worth as much as $60 a ton for horse 

 feeding, and cottonseed meal a little 

 more. The horses did a hard sum- 

 mer's work on these feeds without 

 any considerable loss in flesh. These 

 experiments are of great value to 

 farmers everywhere, as the question 

 of feeding the work horses cheaply, 

 and at the same time in such a way 

 as to keep them in good flesh, is an 

 important one. 



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(Continued from page 321.) 



LIST OF STATION PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE OFFICE 

 OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS DURING JANUARY, 1910. Pp. 5. (Docu- 

 ment 1,251, Office of Experiment Stations.) 



THE UTILIZATION OF PEA-CANNERY REFUSE FOR FORAGE. 

 By M. A. Crosby, Assistant Agriculturist, Office of Farm Management. Pp. 

 12. (Circular 45, Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. Pp. 

 12. (Document 548, Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



COYOTE-PROOF PASTURE EXPERIMENT. Circular 160. Forest Service. 



PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE TO OWNERS OF FOREST LAND AND 

 TREE PLANTERS. Circular 165, Forest Service. 



COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS THEIR USES AND VALUE. Docu- 

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WHEAT, FLOUR AND BREAD. Separate 324, Yearbook, 1903. 



OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURE. Separate 340, Yearbook, 1904. 



SPRAYING FOR ORCHARD PESTS INFORMATION ABOUT. Sep- 

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