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Department Bulletin No. 1246. — Market Classes and Grades of 

 Dressed Beef — Continued. 



Kosher beef 45 



Proportion of various classes of beef 46 



Approximate distribution of steer beef by grades 46 



Complete classification of carcass beef and wholesale cuts 47 



Department Bulletin No. 1247. — Taros and Yautias; Promising 

 New Food Plants for the South: 



General characteristics 1 



Uses 2 



Relationship of the taros and yautias 2 



Taros 3 



Yautias 17 



Summary 22 



Department Bulletin No. 1248. — Size of Potato Sets: Comparisons 

 of Whole and Cut Seed: 



Introduction 1 



Early experimental studies 2 



Departmental studies of the size of the set 15 



Experiments at the Virginia Truck Experiment Station 17 



Studies at Caribou and Presque Isle, Me 19 



Experiments at the Colorado Potato Experiment Station 24 



Experiments at Jerome, Idaho 26 



Comparative yields from sets of the same weight 27 



Relation of size of set to number of stems and tubers produced 29 



Frequency correlations of stems 32 



Summary 35 



Literature cited 38 



Department Bulletin No. 1249. — Food Habits of some Winter 

 Bird Visitants: 



Introduction 1 



Evening grosbeak 3 



Pine grosbeak 5 



Red crossbill 9 



White- winged crossbill ' 12 



Hoary redpoll 14 



Common redpoll . 15 



Pine siskin J 16 



Snow bunting 18 



Lapland longspur 22 



Smith longspur 25 



Chestnut-collared longspur 26 



McCown longspur 27 



Common pipit 27 



Sprague pipit 32 



Department Bulletin No. 1250. — Relation Between the Com- 

 position of California Cantaloupes and Their Commercial 

 Maturity: 



California cantaloupe industry 1 



Purpose of investigation 2 



Investigational work 2 



Discussion of results 4 



Practical application of results 25 



Summary 26 



