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No. 2, $4.81; Japanese cane No. 1, $3.29; Japanese cane No. 2, $1.17. 

 The steers in this experiment were sold at $12.50 per 100 pounds; 

 $7^ per ton was allowed for cottonseed meal, $15 per ton for molasses, 

 and $15 per head for marketing charges. 



At the termination of the beef experiment, March 27, 1920, a beef- 

 cattle day was held. Farmers and others were invited to inspect the 

 fat steers and the beef herd and to study the results obtained, the 

 final figures being placarded and posted conspicuously around the 

 bai-ns. About 500 persons were in attendance, and the meeting was 

 very successful in bringing the farmers to a closer understanding of 

 the work. 



Grazing and feed records have been kept on 65 pigs of the fall of 

 1918 and 94 pigs of the spring of 1919, showing the gains made on 

 various kinds of pasture. Some grain and tankage was fed in each 

 case. The pasture consisting of corn and that consisting of barley, 

 rape, and crimson clover gave better dailj^ gains per head than good 

 pasture of red and white clover or fair pasture of lespedeza and white 

 clover. 



Records of 723 pigs farrowed at the farm up to the end of the fiscal 

 year shoAv that it cost an average of $3.14 to produce a pig weighing 

 27.85 pounds at 60 days of age. 



The dairy herd, headed by the purebred Jersey bull Hillside 

 Torono 101729, now contains 11 purebred Jersey and 6 grade Jersey 

 cows. All the purebred cows are in the Register of jNIerit or on test. 

 The profit per head over cost of feed for the herd of milking cows 

 on their last full lactation period was $132. The cost of raising 

 heifer calves to the age of 1 year was $72.75, and to the age of 2 years 

 $127.49. 



To test the value of introducing Brahman blood among the beef 

 cattle in the South, an experiment has been begun in Avliicli one lot 

 of cows has been bred to a high-grade Brahman bull and a similar lot 

 to a purebred Hereford bull. Cattle having Brahman blood seem to 

 be better able to withstand such hardships as flies, mosquitoes, ticks, 

 hot weather, etc., without being hindered in growth and gain, than 

 some of the better-known beef breeds of cattle. Data will be kept on 

 the rate and ecohomy of gains made by the calves produced by these 

 crosses from birth to marketing or maturity. 



The experiment to determine the cost of raising mules has been 

 continued. Seventeen colts at 1 year of age, weighing 611 pounds, 

 cost $42.85 per head ; 14 at 2 years of age, weighing 907 pounds, cost 

 $130.57; while 12 at 2^ years of age, weighing 1,003 pounds, cost 

 $190.68. 



