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The Corn Markets in January. 



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has been carried out at this College during three years. In 1906 

 Molascuit was tested. For the purpose of the test with Molascuit, 

 two lots of fifteen mountain lambs were given a ration of 9 lb. sliced 

 swedes, ^ lb. long hay, \ lb. bran, and either \ lb. crushed oats or 

 \ lb. Molascuit. The sheep would not eat more than \ lb. of the 

 Molascuit per day, and the bran was added because they did not 

 care for it alone. From December 8th to February 17th the lambs 

 receiving crushed oats gained, on the average, &fj lb., while th e 

 others gained 7?- lb. After deducting the extra cost of the oats, the 

 average net gain in favour of oats was 15. g\d. Professor Winter 

 observes that, after taking into account the difference in money value, 

 four sugar foods which have been tested have all proved to be inferior 

 to oats of average quality, but that, so far as can be judged, they are 

 good and wholesome foods, and, provided properties are not claimed 

 for them which they do not possess, there is no reason why they should 

 not be freely used in stock-feeding if sold at reasonable prices. But 

 he adds that, considered as foods, it must be obvious that the prices 

 of some of them are ridiculously high. 



Preservation of Eggs in Water-glass (Aberdeen and North of 

 Scotland Coll. of Agric, Bull. VIII., 1907). — Eggs a few days old were 

 kept in water-glass for periods varying from six months to four years. 

 At six months there was no appreciable change, and after one to four 

 years the eggs had only a slight peculiar taste suggestive of soda, 

 none being bad. Analyses of the eggs are given. A summary of these 

 experiments appeared in the journal, February, 1907, p. 688. 



Dry-Mash Feeding of Chickens; Housing and Feeding of Poultry 

 (Univ. Coll., Reading).— These experiments were designed to try the 

 system of dry-mash or hopper feeding, and the " colony " system of 

 housing, by which a large number of fowls are kept on a given area; 

 methods that are largely adopted in America. Tables are given of the 

 cost of food, egg production, and weights realised. These reports 

 appeared in this Journal, January, 1908, and May, 1908. 



THE CORN MARKETS IN JANUARY. 

 C. Kains-Jackson. 



The corn markets for the first five weeks of the year are apt to be 

 disappointing, though it seems to be a justifiable expectation that 

 the market should advance with the new year, and before Lady Day 

 there is in most years an actual forward movement, sometimes with 

 very heavy sales. But the exchanges are " slow starters," and now 

 that the new crops of Argentina and Australia play such an important 

 part in the trade of this country, there is an increased disposition to 

 wait until the cable brings the news of the first important shipments. 

 The markets from the 1st to the 23rd were not active for any sort 

 of Hour, and this acted as a drag on the wheat trade, but maize, feeding 

 barley, linseed, and beans were in improved request from December, 

 and in cotton seed a brisk business was done at enhanced quotations. 

 The pace was not fast as a whole, but the markets were far from 

 inert. From the 25th to the 30th inclusive a large business was done 



