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allowance of concentrated food per day increases 

 as fattening advances, but the average increase in 

 live weight per day gradually diminishes as fattening 

 advances. The latter point is very well seen if we 

 take the Edinburgh Agricultural College experiments 

 during 1904-5 and 1906. The average increases in 

 live weight per month during fattening of forty-eight 

 bullocks were as follows : 



First month . . . 74'33 Ibs. 



Second ... 63-51 



Third ... 64-05 



Fourth ... 40-00 



Fifth ... 43-87 



Although not quite mathematical, the general tendency 

 is apparent, and shows that the cost of producing 

 increase in later stages of fattening is much greater 

 than in the early period. 



XXXI. RATIONS FOR FATTENING CATTLE. 



The following daily rations are 'for bullocks of 

 approximately 800 Ibs. live weight (two-year-old), 

 which are receiving oat straw or hay along with, say, 

 J cwt. roots per day. The amount of cake allowed is 

 at the rate of I Ib. concentrated food for every 100 Ibs. 

 live weight. Rations i, 2, and 3 are not high in fibre, 

 and would go well with straw ; while 4 and 5 are fairly 

 high in fibre, and may be fed with hay. Ration 10 

 should also be fed with hay, and the remainder would 

 do quite well with either oat straw or hay. 



In making up bulk quantities, the constituent foods 

 in the ration should be taken in the same proportions as 

 those given ; e.g., in ration I, if equal weights of each con- 



