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 12s. 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 12s. 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. i2§ 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 ... ... ... ... ... 52 



Cost of oil for incubator and brooder ... ... ... 1 1 



Cost of grain and meal ... ... ... ... ... 25 5^ 



Total cost of rearing sixteen chickens ... . . 31 8 \ 



s. a. 



Average cost per chicken ... ... ... ... 20 



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 



