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Prices of Foods in the above Table. — Meat scraps and dried meat, 

 $45 per ton ; dried blood, $45 per ton ; straw, $5 per ton ; corn 

 meal, $20 per ton ; good hay, $12 per ton ; clover hay $12 per ton ; 

 swale ha}", $6 per ton. 



The basis of the column of amounts of digestible food was 

 derived from per centages given by Wolff, as the result of feeding 

 trials. 



The corn meal eaten by lots 4 and 5 was for the purpose of 

 teaching those lots to eat their blood and meat. 



The amount of digestible materials given for meat scraps is 

 assumed to be about the same as in the case of fish scraps, as given 

 by Prof. Johnson in the report of the Connecticut Experimental , 

 Station. 



For 1880, the best gain I received was from, fish and damaged oat 

 straw fed together, 



♦Average of several experiments of lots of from two to six steers, covering time 

 of from 21 to 77 days; for comparison it is figured in lot of two, as the others. 



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