60 



A coiisklerable part of the surglium liav had passed 

 ihrouglj a heat in the barn, and ^yas somewhat discohir- 

 ed and sligiitly monlded. It was all coarse, having been 

 grown in drills and cut after the seed had colored. The 

 cow pea hav, which constituted half of the roughness fed 

 to Lot II, was not pnre cow pea hay, bnt consisted of 

 cow pea liaA', 61.5 per cent.; crab grass, 21:. 7 per cent.; 

 weeds, 7.8 per cent.; dirt, (sand, etc. raked up with 

 liav), 6 per cent. 



The corn stover was bright and of fairh' good quality. 

 It had never been baled. The corn chop was too 

 coarsely ground to serve the principal i)urpose for which 

 intended, viz., to mix with the cotton seed in order to 

 increase the iDalatability of the seed. Indeed, the chop 

 used during the last three weeks of the experiment was 

 slightly moulded and not relished, which may partly ac- 

 count for the relativelv slow gain made at that time. The 

 foods used were charged at the following prices, which 

 are cost prices for purchased articles, and for home- 

 grown forage a figure somewhat aboA^e the cost of pro- 

 duction : 



(V-'tton seed, per ton ..^^ll.OO 



Cotton seed meal, per ton 22 . 00 



Corn chop, per ton 26.00 



Cow pea hay, per ton 10 . 00 



Sorghum hay, ]ier ton 6.67 



Shredded corn stovei', per ton .... 1 . 00 



The following table gives by periods the average 

 amount of grain and of roughness consumed by the 

 steers in each pen, the average vreight per steer at the 

 beginning of each period, the average gain per steer per 

 day and per 28 days, and most imp.ortant of all, 

 the amount of grain and of roughness required to make 

 one pound of increase in live weight. It also gives a 

 summary of results for the first two periods (56 days) 

 and for the entire experiment (81 days) : 



