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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



INFLUENCE OF AGE ON COST OF PRODUOTION. 



(Missouri results in co-operation witli Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 



Agriculture.) 



Summer feeding on bluegrass pasture. Lengtli of feeding period, 210 days. Second trial, 



1905. Yearlings and B-year-olds compared. 



DISCUSSION OF RESULTS. 



YEARLINGS AND TWO-YEAR-OLDS COMPARED. 



It will be noted in the Missouri results that not a single lot 

 of yearlings in either year made as rapid gains as did the cor- 

 responding lot of two-year-olds. The average daily gain of all 

 lots in 1904 was as follows : 



Yearlings 



Two-year-olds. 



2.18 pounds 

 2.49 " 



