CONTENTS. 



Department Bulletin No. 626. — Pasture Land on Farms in the 

 United States: 



Source of data 1 



Arrangement of material 2 



Farm pasture land in the United States as a whole 2 



Geographic distribution of farm pasture 3 



Pasture land by geographic divisions and States (table) 14 



Pasture land by counties (table) 16 



Department Bulletin No. 627. — Cost op Harvesting Wheat by Different 

 Methods: 



Development of wheat-harvesting methods 1 



The binder 3 



Shocking 11 



Comparison of costs — old methods v. new 11 



Stacking 13 



Headers 15 



Combines IS 



Department Bulletin No. 628. — Wintering and Fattening Beef Cattle 

 in North Carolina: 



Introduction 1 



Wintering steers preparatory to grazing on pasture 4 



Winter grazing of steers 14 



Summer fattening of steers on grass 19 



Summary of three years ' work, winter and summer 27 



Winter fattening of steers 38 



Department Bulletin No. 629. — Greenhouse Experiments on the 

 Rust Resistance of Oat Varieties: 



Introduction 1 



The culture of cereal rusts in the greenhouse 2 



Experimental methods 2 



Sources of material 5 



Evidences of rust resistance in cereals 5 



Experimental data 8 



Discussion of results 13 



Summary and conclusions 14 



Literature cited 16 



Department Bulletin No. 630. — Studies of the Digestibility op Some 

 Nut Oils: 



Introduction 1 



Methods of procedure 2 



Subjects 3 



Almond oil 4 



Black-walnut oil 6 



Brazil-nut oil 8 



Butternut oil 9 



English-walnut oil 11 



Hickory-nut oil 13 



Pecan oil 15 



Conclusions 17 



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