DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 626-650. 



Department Bulletin No. 631. — Five Years' Calp-eeeding Work in 

 Alabama and Mississippi: 



I. Winter fattening of calves in Alabama on cotton-seed meal, cotton- 

 seed hulls, corn-and-cob meal, and alfalfa bay, 1911-12 1 



II. Fattening beef calves in Alabama on cottonseed meal, cottonseed 



bulls, corn chop, and corn silage, 1912-13 14 



III. Fattening calves in Mississippi on cottonseed meal, corn, cotton- 



seed bulls, corn silage, and alfalfa bay, 1914-15 21 



IV. Fattening calves in Mississippi on cottonseed meal, corn, corn silage, 



and alfalfa, 1915-16 29 



V. Fattening late (short-age) calves for market 39 



VI. General discussion of the five years ' experiments 48 



Department Bulletin No. 632. — The Utilization of Waste Tomato 

 Seeds a.nd Skins: 



Introduction 1 



Commercial products from tomato refuse 1 



Accumulation and disposal of tomato waste 3 



Extraction of tomato-seed oil 5 



Tomato-seed meal 11 



Summary 12 



Literature cited 14 



Department Bulletin No. 633. — Factors op Successful Farming near 

 Monett, Mo. 



Tbe area in which the survey was made 1 



Tbe local agriculture 2 



Farms classified according to type of farming 4 



Sources of receipts 5 



Percentage of area in different crops 5 



Kinds of fruit and their local importance 6 



Relation of type of farming to size of farm 7 



Investment 7 



Profitableness of tbe various types 8 



The proper status of the straw berry industry in southwest Missouri 10 



The speculative nature of fruit enterprises 10 



Maintenance of soil fertility 12 



Organization of some typical farms 14 



Organization of dairy farms 17 



A well-organized two-man farm 19 



Legumes 22 



Tenure 24 



Department Bulletin No. 634. — A Physical and Chemical Study of the 

 Kafir Kernel: 



Commercial importance of nonsaccharine sorghums 1 



Characteristics of kafir kernel 2 



Comparison of kafir with corn 4 



Department Bulletin No. 635. — The Commercial Freezing and Stor- 

 ing op Fish: 



Freezing as a means of conserving the fish supply 1 



Preparation of fish for freezing 2 



Location of freezers 3 



Cleaning fish 3 



Freezing fish 3 



Cold storage of fish 5 



Food value of frozen fish 7 



Handling of frozen fish after storage 8 



Summary 9 



Department Bulletin No. 636. — Cost of Production of Apples in the 

 Payette Valley, Idaho: 



Summary of results 1 



Location and extent of districts studied 3 



History and development 3 



Conditions 6 



