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weighed daily. The arrangement for catching the drop- 

 pings consisted only of the usual wooden manure gutter 

 and the use of pine leaves as bedding. The floors of the 

 stalls were of clay, and hence there was some loss of the 

 liquid manure from the four steers. The cattle had to be 

 taken from the barn for a short time twice a day for 

 water, which represented the loss of such manure as was 

 dropped during a daily period of about one-half hour, 

 h^rom these statements it will be seen that the effort was 

 rather to determine the amount of manui^e that the fai'- 

 mer could expect to save from cattle of this kind, kept 

 under shelter, than to determine from a scientific stand- 

 point the actual and exact weight of the excreta. 



The results for the twenty-day period were as follows : 



Lbs. 

 Solid and liquid manure saved from 6. yearlings in 



20 days, excluding bedding 2402 



Bedding used l'i'9 



Total manure per head daily, excluding bedding. . . 20 

 Total manure per head dailj^ including bedding. . .21.5 

 Total cotton seed, cotton seed meal, and wheat bran 



fed 825 



Total sorghum hay and corn stover actually con- 

 sumed 497 



Total food 1322 



Pounds liquid and solid manure saved per pound of 

 dry food fed 1-8 



At this rate six yearlings in one month would produce 

 3600 lbs. of manure, or, including bedding, about two 

 tons. In other words, a beef animal weighing about 500 

 lbs. would produce a ton of manure in about 3 months. 



Grazing Yeariing Steers on Green Rye. 



For three weeks, beginning March 11, 1903, four year- 

 ling steers, averaging about 500 pounds in weight, were 

 placed on a field of rye, sown on thin upland on the Sta- 



