Experiment Station Record, Volume 67, July-December, 1932 Page: 58
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58 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD [Vol. 67
Nicotine and Penetrol, Derrisol and soap, and glue have also been applied with
success. On the bases of cost, ease of application, compatibility, and tolerance
of the plant, the summer oils, Volck and Verdol, used at 1 per cent strength,
seemed, as a result of the tests conducted, to be the most satisfactory killing
agents for controlling the spinning mites infesting raspberries.
ANIMAL PRODUCTION
Breeds of live stock in America, H. W. VAUGHAN (Columbus, Ohio: R. G.
Adams Co., 1931, pp. 780, figs. 426).-In this treatise the author gives something
of the origin, history, and desirable characters of the various breeds of
livestock in this country.
[Feeding and nutrition experiments with livestock at the Ohio Station]
(Ohio Sta. Bul. 497 (1932), pp. 121, 122, 125-138, 143, 144, 172-174, figs. 5).This
report includes results of tests with beef cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry.
The cattle studies include a determination of the value of first-year sweetclover
hay for fattening steers, by P. Gerlaugh and H. W. Rogers; the value
of Palmo Midds and of molasses for fattening calves, by Gerlaugh; and the
relative efficiency and profitableness of various grades of feeder steers, by
Gerlaugh and C. W. Gay.
Under sheep studies are reported a determination of the sheep-carrying
capacity of second-year sweetclover and molasses for fattening lambs, by D. S.
Bell; and the value of timothy hay for wintering ewes, by Bell, L. E. Thatcher,
and C. H. Hunt.
Hog work was designed to determine methods of handling hogs to prevent
shrinkage during shipping, dressed yields of barrows and sows, the value of
kelp for pigs, autoclaving cottonseed meal for pigs, and effect of fish meals on
quality of pork, by W. L. Robison; the effect of fluorine on growth and bone
development in swine, by R. M. Bethke, 0. H. Kick, and B. H. Edgington,
susceptibility of animals to gossypol poisoning, by Hunt and W. Wilder; and
hogging down wheat, by Robison and P. A. Jones.
The poultry tests included studies on the effect of keeping birds in cages,
by D. C. Kennard; oats. for layers and methods of feeding whole grain and
using all-night lights for layers, by Kennard and V. D. Chamberlin; nutritional
leg paralysis of chicks and nutritional factors affecting hatchability of
eggs, by Bethke, P. R. Record, and Kennard; comparative value of different
fish meals for chicks, by Bethke and Record; iodine content of eggs, by Bethke,
O. H. M. Wilder, and Record; and hens v. pullets for egg production, by
Kennard and H. S. Elliott.
[Animal production studies at the Ohio county. experiment farms]
([Ohio Sta., Co. Expt. Farms Rpts.] 1930, Clermont Co. Farm, p. 4; Madison
Co. Farm, pp. 1-4; Washington Co. Farm, pp. 3, 4).-The studies reported
include data on all-night light for layers; the value of corn in silage v. shelled
corn for steers, trinity mixture v. other protein supplements for hogs, and
wheat and other small grains for hogs; and a successful method for raising
Easter lambs.
[Feeding tests with livestock] (South Dakota Sta. Rpt. 1931, pp. 15, 16,
18).-The swine studies for which results are reported in this publication
include feeding soybeans with corn to avoid soft pork, worming pigs with oil
of chenopodium, vitamin D potency of milk, comparison of corn, wheat, and
barley for fattening summer pigs, and a comparison of corn, barley, and speltz
for fattening fall pigs. Other work reported includes a comparison of flax
straw and alfalfa hay for feeding cattle and a comparison of the metabolism
of several calcareous materials by laying hens.
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