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Department Bulletin No. 1251. — -Effect of Winter Rations on 

 Pasture Gains of 2-Year-Old Steers. I. Winter Rations and 

 Their Influence on Pasture Gains of 2-Year-0ld Steers. II. 

 The Cost of Rations for Wintering 2-Year-0ld Steers: 



I. Winter rations and their influence on pasture gains of 2-year-old 



steers , 



The Appalachian region and its problems 



Objects and plan of the work 



Kind of steers used 



Feeds used 



Character of pasture 



Method of feeding and handling the steers 



Quantity of feed consumed 



Gains during winter and summer 



Diagrams of gains and losses 



Correlations 



II. Cost of rations for wintering 2-year-old steers 



Cost per pound of gain 



Shrinkage in transit and dressing percentage 



Conclusions 



Department Bulletin No. 1252.— Prune and Cherry Brown-Rot 

 Investigations in the Pacific Northwest: 



Introduction 



Blossom infection 



Apothecia '. 



Time relation of apothecia, blossoms, and blossom infection 



Relation of plowing, cultivation, and character of soil 



Fruit infection 



Spraying experiments on prunes 



Spraying experiments in 1915 



Spraying experiments in 191.6 



Spraying experiments in 1917 



Spraying experiments in 1918 



Spraying experiments in 1919 



Summary of spraying experiments on prunes 



Recommendations for the control of brown-rot of prunes 



Spraying experiments on cherries 



Spraying experiments in 1915 



Spraying experiments in 1916 



Spraying experiments in 1917 



Spraying experiments in 1918 



Spraying experiments in 1919 



Summary of spraying experiments on cherries 



Recommendations for the control of brown-rot of cherries 



Preparation of sprays 



Self-boiled lime sulphur 



Bordeaux mixture 



Lime-sulphur solution 



Rosin-fishoil soap 



Casein 



Spraying schedule 



Summary 



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