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From the figures given above it will be seen that corn 

 meal was decidedly superior to rice meal in giving more 

 rapid growth, and in requiring a smaller amount of food 

 per pound of growth. Corn meal is also superior in com- 

 position and palatability. The rice meal used evidently 

 consisted partly of ground rice hulls. 



After an experience of five months in feeding rice meal 

 to calves, we are led to the conclusion that it is not an 

 especially desirable food for calves. However, the gains 

 made bv these calves on rice meal indicate that when the 

 price is very much cheaper than that of corn that it may 

 be thus used. A briefer experience in feeding rice polish 

 suggests that it may be found to be a very desirable food 

 for calves, as also we have found it for hogs. 



Shredded Corn Stover versus Sorghum Hay. 



During the winter of 1902-03 an experiment was be- 

 gun to determine the relative values of shredded corn 

 stover and sorghum hay, using yearling cattle, most of 

 which were grades of the beef breeds. The experiment 

 was interrupted by sickness of two of the animals, which 

 was not due to the feed. In the fifty days before this in- 

 terruption the rate of daily gain was much greater with 

 the sorghum lot than with those fed the corn stover. The 

 latter was of medium to poor quality and was decidedly 

 unpalatable. 



Of the corn stover offered, 37 per cent, remained un- 

 eaten in the troughs, although this food was fed in such 

 limited quantities as to make the animals consume as 

 large a proportion of it as possible. During a part of 

 the time the stover was sprinkled with brine, but this did 

 not noticeably increase its palatability. 



The sorghum was eaten clean. At first it was cut into 

 short lengths, but this was found to be unnecessary, the 



