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<TI)C Stations. 
E xperiment station record. 
—As our readers probably know, it 
is a part of the duty of the Department of 
Agriculture to compare and edit the vari¬ 
ous bulletins.issued by the experiment sta¬ 
tions and publish the results. This volume 
is the first result of this work. It gives 
brief abstracts of the bulletins issued from 
January to June 1889. The editorial -work 
is in charge of Prof. W. O. Atwater. 
Those who wish to keep pace with the 
work of the experiment stations and yet 
have not the time to read all the bulletins 
will find these records of great value. 
Experiments on Tomatoes.— Bulletin 
No. 03 of the New Jersey Experiment Sta¬ 
tion is an excellent one. Many Jersey men 
are interested in the growing of tomatoes 
for market or for canning factories. The 
soil and climate of New Jersey are well 
adapted to the growth of this crop and as 
there are a dozen large cities within reach, 
besides 73 canneries, market facilities are 
as good as can be found anywhere. These 
canneries alone use the product of 15,000 
acres. 
Practical experience in regard to the 
growth of the crop has led to the belief 
that while both barnyard manure and com¬ 
mercial fertilizers increase the yield, it 
is at the expense of maturity, especially in 
the case of fertilizers ; and that the best ef¬ 
fect of barnyard manure is shown when it 
has been applied in the fall previous 
to the year of growth. In view of the 
magnitude of .the industry and the im¬ 
portance, from both a scientific and 
a practical standpoint, of the question 
of fertilization, the New Jersey Station 
carried out a field experiment for the pur¬ 
pose of studying the effects of different 
methods of fertilization with nitrate of 
soda upon early maturity and yield. 
We have not the space here for all the 
details of this experiment, though they are 
sufficiently interesting to warrant every 
market gardener in New Jersey in study¬ 
ing them with the greatest care. The re¬ 
sults are generally favorable to the use of 
nitrate of soda on the particular soil used in 
the experiment. The nitrate of soda should 
lie used in small quantities at a time, and 
conditions of soil and season should deter¬ 
mine the total quantity to be used. It is 
also wisely stated that whatever the pre¬ 
vious treatment of the soil or the yield, 
phosphoric acid and potash must be added 
in sufficient quantities. This last fact 
should be pressed upon the minds of those 
who may use nitrate of soda this year, 
thinking that nothing else is needed. The 
nitrate of soda will act like a whip to 
drive the other soil elements into greater 
activity, but that is all it will do—the 
other elements must be present. The best 
advice the R. N.-Y. can give its readers 
who Hre interested in growing tomatoes, 
is to urge them to read this bulletin and 
carry out one or two small experiments 
like those tried at the station. 
Substances Useful To Agriculture. 
—Bulletin No. 25 of the Louisiana Station 
(Baton Rouge, La.) is an excellent fertilizer 
primer. Many of the Northern station 
directors seem to assume that farmers are 
all well up in fertilizer lore. Many of 
them are, but those who need help most 
are not. This pamphlet from theLouisiana 
Station is just what such farmers need, and 
the R. N.-Y. is glad it has been published. 
“Pig Feeding.”— Two Bulletins, (Kan¬ 
sas Station No. 9, and Vermont Station No. 
18) bear the same title. It is interesting to 
compare them. The hog crop of Kansas is 
a chief source of her wealth. This fact is 
so well known that Prof. Shelton does not 
mention it in the Kansas bulletin. He 
merely wished to show how near he could 
come to proving his last year’s feeding ex¬ 
periments. Our readers will doubtless re¬ 
member these experiments. Something of 
an outcry had been raised against Western 
corn-fed pork which was said to contain 
too much fat and too little lean. Prof. 
Shelton undertook to show that hogs fed 
on corn-meal would make firmer and sweet¬ 
er pork than could be made by feeding 
more nitrogenous food like bran or shorts. 
His figures proved his proposition. His 
corn-fed hogs gave more meat, with a 
greater proportion of lean and stronger 
bones than did those fed on shorts and 
bran. This year the results were entirely 
different. The corn-fed hogs gave less 
gain and a smaller proportion of lean 
meat than the bran-fed hogs. The meat 
from the corn-fed hogs was considered 
finer-flavored than the other, but this was 
about the only point of superiority claimed 
for it. It is strange that this experiment 
should have resulted so differently from 
that of the year before. The conditions of 
the experiment were about the same as 
those governing the former one, except 
that boiled potatoes were fed with the 
corn. Prof. Cooke in the Vermont bulletin 
■ways: 
“ The dairy is the leading branch of 
farming m Vermont, and the raising of 
pigs for the profitable utilization of the 
skim-milk is an important auxiliary. In 
studying the various methods of feeding 
employed by even the best farmers in the 
State, it has seemed evident that there was 
a great waste of food under the present 
feeding systems. It was also found that 
several breeds of hogs are raised in the 
State, each claimed by its advocates to be 
the best. To test three of these breeds and 
to give some positive information about 
the economy of pig-feeding, the following 
experiments were undertaken.” • 
The three breeds mentioned are Berk¬ 
shire, Chester White, and Yorkshire. 
There seemed little difference between 
these breeds, but that little was in favor of 
the Chester White. Prof. Shelton’s hogs, 
by the way, were all Berkshires. 
Prof. Cooke concludes, as the result of 
his experiment, that the following prop¬ 
ositions are sound: 
1. Pig-feeding is profitable even at the 
low price of b l /l cents per pound, dressed 
weight. Provided, 
2. The nig is sold at an early age. 
3. The pig should be sold as soon as pos¬ 
sible after it reaches a live weight of 180 
pounds. 
4. Grain can be fed to young pigs with 
profit: fed to pigs weighing over 200 
pounds there is a loss. 
5. Young pigs should be fed a ration in 
which the flesh producing material is more 
prominent than the heat or fat-producing. 
G. The old saying, Grow the pig and 
then fat him, should be changed to, Grow 
the pig and then sell him. 
7. By using this system of feeding and 
selling, it is possible to raise two sets of 
pigs in 12 months. 
8. The fertilizing value of the food con¬ 
sumed by the pig is equal to nearly one- 
half the value of the pork. 
The six pigs in this experiment consumed 
5,582 quarts of skim-milk, 1,223 pounds of 
corn-meal and 884 pounds of wheat bran. 
They gained 1,088% pounds in live weight, 
an average of 1.07 pound per pig each day. 
It required an average of 2.79 pounds of 
dry matter to each pound of gain in live 
weight. 
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