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suits with three steers is offered as a preliminary con- 

 tribiitioij to our knowledge on this subject. 



An account Avas kept of the amount of food consum- 

 ed by eacl) of three calves from the age of two or three 

 weeks until taken from the pasture at the end of the 

 second grazing season, November 1, 1903, when we were 

 offered 3 cents per pound for them by a local butcher. 

 These animals were Dangus, a steer sired by a register- 

 ed Angus, and out of a large cow that seemed to be 

 about 1/2 Jersey; Toom, a steer sired by a registered 

 Red Poll bull, and out of a large native cow, apparently 

 a Shorthorn grade; Holstein, a cross-bred Shorthorn 

 Holstein. All of these were dropped between Septem- 

 ber 21 and December 17, 1901. The history of these in- 

 dividuals is as follows : For the first one or two weeks 

 after birth the calves, then belonging to private indi- 

 viduals, subsisted on the milk afforded by one teat of 

 the dam. One of these calves, Holstein, dropped on the 

 Station Farm, was never allowed to suck, but Avas fed 

 for the first few weeks on whole milk or part whole milk. 

 The account for food stands as follows : 



Dangus — 



Dr. Cr. 



2009 lbs. skimmed milk, at Xic $5.02 



172 lbs. bran and corn meal, first winter, at Ic 1.72 



214 lbs. leguminous hay, first winter, at i^c 1.07 



180 lbs. grain, first spring at Ic 1.80 



Eight months' pasturage at 25c 2.00 



294 lbs. cotton seed, second winter, at %c 1.84 



132 lbs. cotton seed meal and wheat bran, second win- 

 ter, at Ic 1.32 



399 lbs. hay, second winter, at l-3c 1.33 



86 lbs. green rye. at i^c 11 



81/^ months' pasturage, at 30c 2 . 55 



To cost of food up to age of 25 months 18.76 



By weight at 25 months (Nov. 1, '03) 888 lbs. at 3c. . 26.64 



Excess of value over cost of feed 7.88 



$26.64 $26.64 

 Cost of food per pound of live weight, 2.11c. 



