DIVISION OF AMilAL Ul SB AN DRY 311 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, FREDERICTON, N.B. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINIENDENT, W. W. HUESARD. 



BEEF CATTLE. 



On account of tlio unfinished condition of the barns, the feeding of cfittle could 

 not begun until the sth of January. At that time it was vc.y diiiicuit to 'act cattle, 

 and the price was considerably higher than later in the teason. Thirty-iour head, 

 mostly three and four-year-old steers, and many of them very poor type, were bought 

 and Stabled on the date mentioned. On the 14th of March, five more cattle were put 

 in. They all cost 5^ cents a pound. The 'thirty-nine head weighed, unshrunken, 

 30,364 pounds. 



On March 31 these cattle weighed 37,123 pounds, which, at 6^ cents per pound, 

 would be worth $2,413. 



As these Vattle were very rough and had to be cleaned up and conditioned, no 

 grain was fed except bran, heavier feeding being reserved for the. latter part of the 

 fattening period. 



Until the 1st of April these cattle consumed: — 



Hay, 28 tons at $8 $ 224 00 



Turnips, 2,000 bushels at S cents 160 CO 



Bran. 4.500 pounds at $18 per ton 40 50 



$ 424 50 



The account would stand as follows: — 



Cost of feed '$ 424 50 



Cost of cattle 2,000 00 



Value at 6^ cents per pound, stable weight. $2,413 00 

 Loss on first feeding period 11 50 



$2,424 50 $2,424 50 



