REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



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Six two-year old steers — 



10,000 lbs. of fodder corn at $4 per ton $20 00 



8,880 " mixed straw at $1 per ton 4 44 



6,720 " turnips at 5 cents per bushel , 5 60 



11,424 " ensilage at $2 per ton 11 42 



4,046 " ground grain at 75 cents per 100 lbs .' 30 34 



Summary of Results. 



$71 80 



343 



One-year old steers. , 

 Two-year old steers 



First cost of 

 each steer. 



$ cts. 



26 8G 

 38 80 



Value of 



feed 

 consumed. 



$ cts. 



11 78 

 11 96 



Price per 

 steer sold. 



$ cts. 



40 86 

 54 33 



Gain 

 per day. 



Lbs. Oz. 



11 



07 



Profit 

 per steer. 



$ cts. 



2 22 



3 51 



CONCLUSIONS, 



The results of both this and last years' experiments would lead us to the following 

 conclusions : — 



1st. The amount of gain in weight per day is practically the same with each lot 

 of steers. 



2nd. The two-year olds were in both instances more profitable than the one-year 

 olds. 



3rd. There is very little profit in fattening steers when the difference between the 

 buying price in the fall and the selling price in the spring is not more than $1 per hun- 

 dred pounds. 



MILKING cows. 



The accompanying table gives the length of the milking period and the weight 

 of miUv given by a number of the experimental farm cows for the past year: — 



Milking Cows. 



Name. 



Myrtle 



Nancy 



Alice May . . . 



Denty 



Brandon Maid 



Christie 



Gretchen 



Carrie 



Pet 



Jennette 



Age. 



years. 



5| M 



(■> II 



5 II 

 4 I- 

 7 II 



6 .1 

 ,1 



7 II 



8 „ 



Breed. 



Shorthorn 



Ayrshire. 

 Guernsey 

 Shorthorn Grade 



Milking 

 Period. 



285 days. 



365 II 



300 I, 



305 „ 



298 „ 



343 ,1 



331 „ 



332 „ 

 253 I. 

 313 n 



Pounds of 

 Milk. 



2,988^ 



3,770 



5,381^ 



5,278 



6,407 



9,326 



5,790 



6,732i 



2,854^ 



6,039 



Average 

 each day. 



10 IL; 

 10 „ 



17 M 



17 .. 



21 ,. 



27 u 



17 11 



20 I. 



11 H 



19 „ 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SWINE. 

 The herd of swine on this farm consists of Yorkshire, Berkshire and Tamworth. 



FEEDING PIGS ON BROME GEASS, PASTURE AND GRAIN. 



This experiment was undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the value of 

 Brome grass pasture when supplemented with a limited amount of grain. Twelve pigs 



