DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 926-950. 



Department Bulletin No. 92S. — Substitutes for Sucrose in Curing 



Meats : Page. 



Quantity of sugar used in curing meats 1 



Function of sugar in curing meat 2 



Substitutes for sugar 2 



Refiners' sirup 2 



Corn sugars 3 



Experimental work 4 



General plan 4 



Experiments with pork hams 4 



Experiments with sweet-pickle bacon 12 



Experiments with box-cured bacon 3.9 



Experiments with beef hams 23 



General summary 28 



Department Bulletin No. 929.— Cottonseed Meal for Horses : 



Output and uses of cottonseed meal 1 



Previous experiments in feeding cottonseed meal to horses 2 



The experimental feeding 2 



Objects of experiment 2 



Horses used 2 



Feeds used 3 



Details of experiment 4 



Individual cases 6 



Summary of experiment 7 



Conclusions and recommendations 7 



Suggested rations containing cottonseed meal 9 



Publications relating to horse raising 10 



Department Bulletin No. 930. — The Production of Binder-twine 

 Fiber in the Philippine Islands : 



Safeguarding the supply of imported raw materials 1 



The binder-twine fiber situation 2 



The Philippine Islands as a source of binder-twine fiber 3 



Present condition of the maguey industry in the Philippine Islands 5 



Improvements needed in the maguey industry 8 



Purpose of the cooperative work with the Philippine Bureau of Agri- 

 culture 9 



Outline of the cooperative work 10 



Results of the cooperative work 11 



The machine situation 11 



The sisal situation 15 



Improvements on plantations 18 



Summary IS 



Department Bulletin No. 931. — Corn-belt Farmers' Experience with 

 Motor Trucks : 



Summary 1 



Method of study 3 



Location and size of farms 4 



Distance to market 4 



Size of trucks 6 



Age of trucks 6 



Are these trucks profitable investments? 6 



The best size 7 



Advantages and disadvantages 8 



Road hauling with trucks 10 



Road hauling for which trucks are not used 14 



Hauling on the farm with trucks 14 



Custom hauling 16 



Effect of different kinds of roads on use of trucks 17 



Change of market 19 



Annual use of trucks 20 



Life and depreciation of trucks 21 



Repairs 22 



Gasoline and oil 24 



