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amount tlio first year's food cost flO.Jto, aud that of the 

 second year f 7.94, At 24.3 months, the average weight 

 Avas SG7 pounds, worth at 3 cents per pound, |26.01. The 

 average cost of food per pound of gain up to this age 

 was 2.12 cents. 



[n feeding calves rice meal proved decidedly inferior 

 to corn meal. A'Mien inferior shredded corn stover was 

 fed to calves, 37 per cent, of it was refused, and when 

 good shredded corn stover was fed freelv to steers, 44 

 per cent, of it was rejected. The waste in feeding coarse 

 sorghum liay, slightly mouhled, to steers, averaged 20 

 per cent. 



A Jersey calf, kept stal>led until 6i/> mouths old, pro- 

 duced manure (with accompanying bedding) at the rate 

 of 9.4 pounds per day. 



Yearling steers, kept in a barn, averaged a daily pro- 

 duction of 20 pounds of manure per day, exclusive of 

 bedding. 



Yearling steers on rye pasture alone gained 1.67 lbs. 

 daily per head. 



Grade calves made on pasture alone an average daily 

 gain of .72 of a pound, or 151 pounds per season. Grade 

 yearling steers made an average daily gain of 1.43 lbs. 

 per day, or 307 pounds per season, on native pasturage 

 alone, or 91 pounds of live weight per acre. This was 

 equivalent to a rental of Jj?2.73 per acre for the land. 



In a co-operative experiment made on an unimproved 

 sandy-land pasture, in Macon county, Alabama, a study 

 was made of the rate of growth of scrub cattle that re- 

 ceived no food, even during winter, subsisting entirely 

 on native pasturage and the winter range, and other- 

 wise managed in the most primitive manner. 



During a pasturage season of 7 months the average 

 gains in live weight and percentage of increase as com- 

 pared with weight in the spring, were as follows : 



