A short time ago we were asked whether any injustice would result to either creamery-man or patron, if the latter should set his evening’s milk, skim it in the morning, mix the cream with the morning’s milk and send the mixture to the creamery instead of sending the milk of both evening and morning, as is the usual custom. The most satisfactory way to answer all such queries is by practical demonstrations, and it was determined to conduct an experiment bearing on the point in question.

A short time ago we were asked whether any injustice would result to either creamery-man or patron, if the latter should set his evening’s milk, skim it in the morning, mix the cream with the morning’s milk and send the mixture to the creamery instead of sending the milk of both evening and morning, as is the usual custom. The most satisfactory way to answer all such queries is by practical demonstrations, and it was determined to conduct an experiment bearing on the point in question.

Extended personal observation, the press reports, and our correspondence, show this to be an “off year” with the apple crop over about the whole country east of the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic.

So far as known, it is also true that scab of leaf and fruit,. {Fusicladium dendriticum, Fckl.,) and other leaf troubles, are found to a greater extent than has been heretofore known on all varieties of the west European apples, and their American seedlings; also, on all varieties of the Siberian crabs, and o f our native crab, Pyrus coronaria. In the vicinity of Ames, we have not been able to find a healthy leaf on the native crab, and the perfect leaves are rare on the Siberian crabs, and our common apples, except the Duchess of Oldenburg, Whitney, Tetofsky, Wealthy, and some other varieties o f Russian origin or descent.

We conducted experiments with sheep during the past winter. The College owns seven breeds of registered sheep. They were wintered in a comfortable barn, where each lot could be controlled in all its relations. Grain, hay, water, and facilities for weighing were all convenient. The sheep were gentle and familiar with the herdsman, who did all the feeding and weighing, and made written reports daily, that were recorded. Every provision that could be made to secure accurate work was at hand. The experiment began Dec. 10th and continued for 90 days, to March 7th.

We had in view the amounts of grain and hay necessary to winter each breed, the gain or loss in weight, the cost of the feed, the average feed and weight for the whole flock, the wool clipped from each breed, unscoured and scoured, the comparative value in both conditions, the comparison of the wools of the different breeds under the microscope, the loss in scouring of each breed, and the average value of wool from each breed.

To secure the best results in wintering weanling colts is one of the difficult problems in animal husbandry, and so important as to very largely determine the after value of the horse, and the profit or loss of horse raising. During the past winter some investigations were made by this station, with a view to securing satisfactory results and making a comparison of ground and unground feed. The colts used in making the trials consisted of six head of imported weanling filleys, two Percherons, Victoreuse (37255) 16080, and Miss (37162) 16079, two English Shires, Stuntney Victoria 3925, and Stuntney Alexandria 3924, and two French Coach Neomie 1117, and Normandie 1118. The Percherons are both grand-daughters of Gilbert 5451 (461), and the Shires and Coachers are respectively half sisters, thus making a uniform even lot. All were foaled in the spring of 1891, but the Percherons were about one month older than the others. The importation was made in 1891, and the colts reached the college farm September 24. The trial of ground and unground feed was not begun until March 1, 1892, but the feeding from October 1st is here reported, in order to give conditions for comparison, and as a feeding period of interest when considered separately.