10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1276-1300 



Department Bulletin No. 1295. — Land Settlement and Coloniza- 

 tion in the Great Lakes States: 



Acknowledgments 



Characteristics of the region 



Physical conditions 



Ownership of the land 



Classes of land settlement agencies in Great Lakes States 



General description of projects surveyed 



Problems and methods of land settlement 



Summary of settlers' progress 



Analysis of settlers' progress on individual projects 



Other significant types of land settlement agencies 



Land settlement from the standpoint of the public interest 



Department Bulletin No. 1296. — A Study of Farm Organization 

 in Central Kansas: 



Description of area 



Labor and materials used in crop production __ 



Labor and materials used in livestock production 



Miscellaneous labor and its relation to the crop and livestock labor. _ 



Principles governing choice of farm enterprises 



Application of principles governing the choice of farm enterprises 



Department Bulletin No. 1297. — Effect of Feeding Cabbage and 

 Potatoes on Flavor and Odor of Milk: 



Acknowledgments 



Experimental feeding of cabbage 



Procedure 



Feeding an average of 14.3 pounds one hour before milking 



Feeding an average of 24 pounds one hour before milking 



Feeding an average of 25 pounds immediately after milking 



Effect of immediate aeration of the milk 



Effect on flavor and odor of cream 



Experimental feeding of potatoes 



Procedure 



Feeding an average of 14.8 pounds one hour before milking 



Feeding an average of 29.3 pounds one hour before milking 



Feeding an average of 28.7 pounds immediately after milking 



Conclusions 



Department Bulletin No. 1298. — Control of Decay in Pulp and 

 Pulp Wood: 



Acknowledgments 



Importance of decay problem in pulp industry 



Decay of wood 



Conditions necessary for growth of fungi 



Fungi that decajr stored pulp wood 



Storage of pulp wood 



Character of wood available for pulping 



Length of storage period 



Handling of pulp at woods points 



Storing pulp wood at the mill 



Summary of recommendations *. 



Pulping characteristics of decayed woods 



Physical properties of mechanical pulp made from sound and 



from decayed spruce 



Physical properties of sulphite and soda pulps made from sound 



and from decayed wood 



Chemical properties of sound and decayed woods and pulp from 



sound and decayed spruce 



Spruce wood and spruce mechanical pulp 



Hemlock, balsam, and aspen woods 



Spruce sulphite pulp _~_~ 



"Spruce soda pulp 



General discussion of chemical data 



Storage of pulp 



Length of storage 



Deterioration during storage 



Physical properties of pulp decayed in storage 



