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pounds clover hay at a cost of $12.35 per hundred. During the finishing 

 period of one month the same results were secured as in previous years 

 from improving the ration in Increasing the rate of gain from 1.89 

 pounds to 2.90 pounds per head daily and decreasing the cost of gains 

 from $12.35 to $10.83 per hundred. At the close of the winter feeding 

 experiment they were valued at $6.55 per hundred. The last month's 

 feeding required a margin of 23 cents per hundred to insure an equal 

 profit, while the actual margin secured was 30 cents, or a profit of 7 

 cents per hundred, without giving credit for the manure or pork pro- 

 duced. 



The results of all trials conducted at the station during the months 

 of May and June, 1907, 1908 and 1909, have shown that the final month 

 in finishing steers of good quality and breeding has added an additional 

 profit to that secured during the winter feeding season. This has been 

 exceptionally large where the cattle were not on the most efficient rations 

 during the winter and which were improved during the finishing period 

 by the use of nitrogenous concentrates. 



TABLE XIII. 



Showing Rate and Cost of Gains, Selling Price, Dressing Percentage and 



Prizes Won by Each Lot of Cattle Exhibited in the "Short-fed" 



Contest at the International Live Stock Exposition 



Held in Chicago, December, 1908. 



