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champion load, these being yearlings weighing 1,190 pounds and 

 selling for $15 per hundredweight. This lot was wintered on a ration 

 of corn on the cob with some bran, a little oil cake, and roughage 

 consisting of clover, alfalfa, and timothy. They were carried through 

 the summer in a 20-acre feed lot, with oil cake as a supplementary 

 feed. Cottonseed meal was tried at one time, but as it was not rel- 

 ished a return to oil cake was made. Six weeks before the show 

 brown sugar was fed, each steer being allowed 1 pound daily, and 

 four weeks prior to shipping they were given a daily ration of oats. 

 The prize car lot of 15 short-fed yearlings were Angus, which made 

 a gain of 5,025 pounds at a cost of $9,59 per hundredweight. The 

 feed consumed in addition to pasture was stated to have been 360 

 bushels old corn, 450 bushels new corn, 75 bushels crushed oats, 1 ton 

 oil meal, and 6 tons clover hay. The premium car lot of 2-year-olds 

 were Herefords, which gained 4,900 pounds at a cost of $9.30 per 

 hundredweight. In addition to pasture they consumed 3,785 pounds 

 snapped corn, 4,599 pounds corn-and-cob meal, 2,095 pounds linseed 

 meal, and 3,335 pounds alfalfa hay. The prize winners in the car- 

 lot feeding cattle were mostly from Colorado. 



In the cattle slaughter test 7 out of 10 prizes went to the Angus 

 breed, 2 to the Galloway, and 1 to the Red Polled. The fii-st prize in 

 the class for animals 1 year old and under 2 was won by the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska on a grade Angus with a live weight of 1,390 pounds, 

 dressing 65.8 j^er cent and selling for 14.25 cents per pound. The 

 first and second prizes for animals 2 years old and under 3 were also 

 won by the University of Nebraska, and other prizes in this contest 

 were won by the Iowa college and the Ohio State University. 



The display in the fat classes of sheep was of high character and 

 showed a growing interest in mutton sheep in the corn belt. Many 

 prizes were won by the Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Ohio Universities. 

 In the dressed-carcass contest all the prizes were won by the Wis- 

 consin University except the second prize, which went to the Iowa 

 college. The Southdown was the only breed represented m this test. 

 The first-prize yearling dressed 63.48 per cent of the live weight and 

 sold for 10.25 cents per pound. The first-prize lamb dressed 60.64 per 

 cent live weight and sold for 51 cents per pound. A notable feature 

 of this contest was the uniformity in rating on foot and on the block, 

 the lambs that won first and second in the carcass test having won 

 first and second in the open classes for Southdown lambs. The 

 Wyoming University showed a novelty in a Highland-Cotswold cross. 

 This was cut for inspection, as were the best five sheep in both year- 

 ling and lamb classes. The forequarter proved to be too heavy and 

 the percentage of fat to lean far too excessive. The pea-fed lot of 

 yearlings submitted by the Wisconsin University won first, as in the 

 past two years. 



