146 Summary of Agricultural Experiments, [may, 
From seven trials on fattening cattle with Long Red and Yellow 
Globes, the relative feeding values of the two types are approximately 
as 116 to 100 in favour of Long Red. This agrees as well as can be 
expected with the relative percentages of dry matter, which are as 120 
to 100 in favour of Long Red. 
Two comparisons of Long Red and Golden Tankard indicated that 
there is no appreciable difference in the feeding value of these types. 
This also agrees with the fact that their percentages of dry matter are 
practically equal. The three experiments with store cattle were 
regarded as inconclusive. 
Autumn Chicken Rearing (Field Expts. in Staffs and Salop 
and at Harper Adams Agric. Coll., Joint Report, 1910). — The objects 
of this experiment were to find the cost of rearing autumn-hatched 
chickens to a killing age, and to note the rate of increase in weight 
week by week for food consumed. The cost of spring rearing is to 
be determined in the spring of 191 1 in order to compare it with autumn 
rearing. Thirty-one eggs were put in the incubator on September 30th, 
of which 21 were fertile and 17 hatched. One chick was accidentally 
killed. The trial extended over eighteen weeks. For the first 
fortnight the chicks were fed on a dry mixture containing no 
meat, which cost 125. per cwt. From the second to the sixth 
week they were fed on a mixture containing meat at a cost of 
245. per cwt. From the sixth to the sixteenth week they received the* 
same mixture as at first at a cost of 125. per cwt. During the last two 
weeks of this time they were given a midday soft feed of 2 parts fine 
oatmeal and 3 parts wheat meal mixed with separated milk. For the 
last two weeks of the trial the soft food was given twice a day, and 
consisted of 2 parts fine oatmeal, 3 parts wheat meal, and 2 parts maize 
meal mixed with separated milk, while the evening feed was changed 
to whole barley. 
At the end of the 18 weeks the average weight of the chickens was 
3 lb. 12^ oz., and the food consumed by each was 14 lb. 9 oz. The cost 
and returns worked out as follows : — 
s. d. 
Cost of thirty-one eggs ... ... ... ... ... 5 2 
Cost of oil for incubator and brooder ... ... ... 1 1 
Cost of grain and meal ... ... ... ... ... 25 5 J 
Total cost of rearing sixteen chickens ... . . 31 8^ 
s. a. 
Average cost per chicken ... ... ... ... 2 o 
Market value per chicken ... ... ... ... 30 
Dairying. 
Use of Molasses as a Condiment in Food and its Effect on Milk 
Secretion (Die Landw. Versuchs-Stationen, Band Ixxiv., Heft iii.-v.). 
— This publication reports some experiments conducted by Herr 
Gustav Fingerling, of the Hohenheim Agricultural Experiment Station, 
as to the influence of condiments on milk secretion, in continuation 
of those noticed in this Journal for September, 1905, Vol. xii., p. 367. 
The experiments were carried out with three goats, and consisted in 
comparing the effect of a mixture of appetising foods composed of 
