Show Hopeful Results Come Out of Feeding Tests Testa Hopeful results have come out of feeding tests test being made by the col col- r lege of agriculture University of 1111 1 t Y nois to help farmers cope with the thet 1 j t critical situation which now prevails prevail with respect to scab Infection of barley banley bar bar- ley Jey throughout the Mississippi I valley volley i. i It Is reported by Prof II H. H p P. P husk Rusk head of the animal husbandry depart went ment Cattle ted the scab-damaged scab barley t t have during the first month sf f f the ther r f test made gains as high as DI any that v can be remembered in local feeding It tests It was announced Barley Darley fed fedt t to them carried about 60 ro per cent scab infection As yet however howe the Investigators investigators have ha met with little suc success ss r L in getting hogs to eat scab Infected f barley without harmful results Barley throughout the Mississippi I valley this year was hit by bt one of the worst scab devastations In history Hogs which ordinarily are the chief consumers of the barley crop refuse i to eat the scab Infected grain unless starved into doing so so in which case the resulting sickness Is serious and home times fatal Unconfirmed reports i 1 j have hn come fr from m Ohio that even cattle have died from eating the damaged SI I barley harley while white one case Is reported from northwestern Illinois In which I horses were killed by it So serious 6 did the situation become that Germany Ger Gen many recently placed an embargo on J all barley from America v |