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sacks at the elevator and hauled to the feed lots. It was the intention 

 to start the cattle on corn and cob meal but owing to delay in getting 

 the macinery necessary for crushing, the snapped corn feeding was con- 

 tinued until the thirtieth of March. On the twenty-first of March, a little 

 shelled corn was added which was gradually increased until the twenty- 

 seventh, when the feeding of corn and cob meal was begun. The first 

 day's feed on March 11th was three hundred pounds of snapped corn to 

 each lot in addition to five pounds of each of the various by-products and 

 one pound of the various stock foods to their respective lots. On March 

 28th, the grain ration was two* hundred pounds of shelled corn, one 

 hundred pounds of snapped corn, 40 pounds of corn and cob meal to 

 each lot, with 17 pounds of oil meal, cotton-seed meal, gluten meal, germ 

 oil meal and dried blood were given to their respective lots. Twenty- 

 four pounds of gluten feed was fed to lot 5 and the stock food lots were 

 each receiving t wo pounds. The amount of shelled and snapped corn 

 was gradually decreased and the corn and cob meal increased and on 

 April 9th, each lot was receiving 450 pounds of corn and cob meal, lot 

 2, 38 pounds of oil meal; lot 3, 29 pounds of cottonseed meal; lot 4, 

 38 pounds of gluten meal; lot 5, 66 pounds of gluten feed; lot 6, 38 

 pounds of germ oil meal; lot 7, 20 pounds of dried blood; lot 8, 2y 2 pounds 

 of Iowa Stock Food; lot 9, 2 pounds of International Stock Food, and lot 

 10, 2y 2 pounds of Standard Stock Food. The corn and cob meal did not 

 give satisfactory results as it proved too binding a ration with nothing 

 but wheat straw for roughage and on April 16th, coarsely ground meal 

 was added to the ration. This was gradually increased until May 8th, 

 when the corn and cob meal was all taken out and corn meal alone was 

 fed from this in connection with the various by-products and condiments. 



Each lot was now allowed all the grain it would readily clean up and 

 they were eating from 460 to 480 pounds of corn meal, lot 2 having an 

 additional 60 pounds of oil meal; lot 4, 60 pounds of gluten meal; lot 5, 

 70 pounds of gluten feed; lot 6, 60 pounds of germ oil meal; lot 7, 20 

 pounds of dried blood; lot 8, 2 pounds of Iowa Stock Food; lot 9, 2 pounds 

 of International and lot 10, 3 pounds of Standard Stock Foods. The 

 feeding continued in about this manner until the experiment closed, 

 June 13th, when the various lots were eating from 480 to 520 pounds of 

 corn meal, with lot 2 eating an addition of 80 pounds of oil meal; lot 4 

 76 pounds of gluten meal; lot 5, 76 pounds of gluten feed; lot 6, 80 

 pounds of germ oil meal; lot 7, 20 pounds of dried blood; lot 8, 2 pounds 

 of Iowa food; lot 9.^ 1 / ^ pounds of International and lot 10, 3% pounds 

 of Standard stock foods. The racks in each yard were kept well filled with 

 wheat straw, some of which was not of extra good quality. The straw 

 was never weighed but so far as I was able to see, there was practically 

 no difference in the amount each lot consumed. 



Lot 1 was fed on corn alone. As a rule they were always ready for 

 their feed and had fairly good appetites to the end although they did 

 not shed off quite as early or look as sleek as some of the other lots. 

 They weighed at the beginning an average of 1,042 pounds and made a 



