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-QUANTITY AND COST OF FEED REQUIRED TO MAKE 100 

 POUNDS GAIN DURING THE WINTER. 



The following- table shows that the gains made during 

 the winter months by the steers in Lots 4 and 5 were ex- 

 pensive ones. There is no way to determine the cost 

 of gains made by the range cattle (Lots X and Y), as no 

 value ov rental price has ever been placed upon the 

 •open range. 



"Table 9. — Quautity (uid ('ost of Feed Required to Make 



100 Pounds of Gain During the Winter Months. 



The Young Steers 



(Dec. G, 1909— Mar. 31, 1910.) 



air. (lavs.! 



X 



and 

 Y 



Tlir Coniinou Steers. 



(Dec. 6, 1909— Apr. 23, 1910) 



(139 days.) 



Range alone 



Nothing 



Each 100 pounds of gain during the winter months 

 -cost $12.05 and $14.71 in Lots 4 and 5 respectively. These 

 were very expensive gains and hard to overcome even 

 when the steers wer continued on a very cheap ration^ 

 pasture and cottonseed cake— the following summer. In 

 fact the expensive winter gains of Lots 4 and 5 were 

 .never counteracted by the cheap gains of the following 



