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yearlini>s oonsiimiiio- a bright good grade of sorghum hay 

 fed whole as well as when cut. The grain ration fed in 

 connection with both the stover and the sorghum hay 

 consisted by weight of four parts cotton seed, one part 

 cotton seed meal, and one part wheat bran, a very satis- 

 factory combination. 



Manure Made. 



Manure from a young calf. — A Jersey heifer calf, 

 dropped October 15, 1901, was kept in a box stall from 

 November 3 to April 30, 1902, except that for one day 

 every two weeks she was allowed to run in a lot, and the 

 manure for this day was thus lost. Pine loaves were 

 freely used as bedding, and in more liberal quantity than 

 is customary. 



The t«)ia] amount of manure, including bedding, as 

 weighed a week after the close of the experiment was 

 1(;15 lbs. pro'luced in 176 days. This is about 9.4 lbs. 

 of manure and bedding per dny, which is a larger 

 amount than would be obtained with the usual amount 

 of bedding. 



During this time this calf consumed 204 lbs. of wheat 

 bran, 323 lbs. hay (chiefly lespedeza and crimson clover), 

 92 lbs. of whole milk, and 1191 lbs. of skim milk. 



Assuming 6 lbs. of skim milk as equivalent to 1 lb. of 

 grain, we have a total amount of feed eaten, equivalent 

 to about 740 lbs. of grain and hay. Hence for every 

 pound of air-dry food consumed there was produced 

 about 2.2 lbs. of manure. 



Manure produced hy yearling heef animals. — Begin- 

 jjing January 17th, 1902, the combined liquid and solid 

 manure dropped by six head of yearling cattle, most of 

 which were grades of the beef breeds, was saved and 



