394 RAPE FOR YOUNG PIGS. 

factories, the chief causes of this scarcity are emigration to- 
Siberia and America, and temporary migration during the 
summer months to Germany, where the rates of pay are 
higher. : 
The number of agricultural co-operative societies in 
Germany in the middle of this year was. 
German Agricul- |, 636 including 9,793 agricultural 
eet eee banks, 1,115 co-operative . purchase 
Societies. } Dae 
societies, 1,917 dairy societies, and 811 of 
other descriptions. To this total Prussia contributed 7,213, 
Bavaria 2,716, Wurtemburg 1,055, Hesse 646, Baden 511, and. 
Alsace-Lorraine 409. The increase which has taken place in 
the number of these societies in recent years is very notice- 
able. In 1893 the number was 4,979; in 1896, three years. 
later, it had increased to 8,986, and in 1899, atter the same 
interval, it was 12,736, whilst, as has been stated, it was- 
13,036 in 1900. 
[Wiener Landwirthschafiliche Zettung. | 

‘The comparative value of rape and clover for young grow- 
ing pigs has been the subject of ex- 
Rape for , periment at the Wisconsin Experiment. 
Young Pigs. Station. Two lots of pigs, each con- 
taining 21. pure-bred and high-grade 
Berkshires and Poland-Chinas, were selected for the test, the 
animals averaging a little over Ioo lbs. each in weight when 
the test began. Both lots were given a grain ration of one 
part middlings and two parts maize meal with water. The 
pigs in Lot 1 were also turned into a field of rape, while 
those of Lot 2 were pastured on clover. The former were 
somewhat slow acquiring a taste for the rape, but at the end 
of a week of preliminary feeding they ate it greedily. The 
experiment covered four periods of two weeks each, and 
during the time the pigs in Lot1 ate the rape from about. 
