1894.J 



PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 



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Financial Statement. 



Total cost of feed required to produce 1 pound of live weight, 8.90 cts. 



Net cost of feed required to produce 1 j^oiuid of live weight, 4.40 " 



Average gain in weight jier day, . . . . . . 1 . 32 lbs. 



Dry matter required to produce 1 pound of live Aveight, . 10.99 " 



In answer to inquiry II. : — TJie cost of heef production. 



a. The financial statement shows that, excluding the cost 

 of hibor, the coarse fodder articles and grains have been 

 sold at market rates, and have l)een a trifle more than paid 

 for in the value of the beef and of the manure produced. 

 The value of the latter is calculated on the basis of the cur- 

 rent market rates for nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. 



I). Taking an average of the two steers, the total cost 

 of producing 1 pound of live weight was 8.7 cents and the 

 net cost 4 1 cents. 



c. The average daily gain for the entire experiment 

 (467 days) w^as 1.37 pounds, and the dry matter required to 

 produce 1 pound of gain was 10.82 pounds. 



d. These results are interesting, if not encouraging. 

 The experiments are being continued, and it is hoped that in 

 the next report the results of the work in this direction for 

 the past four years can be presented. The results of one 

 experiment are by no means conclusive. It is only when 

 the average of a considerable number of experiments, in 

 which all or nearly all give practically the same results, that 

 the desired facts are obtained. 



III. SUMMER SOILING vs. PASTURE. 

 The third object of the present steer-feeding experiment 

 was to ascertain the relative merits of summer soilinjj; vs. 



