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cents per pound of live Aveight in case of yearlings, with 3| 

 cents per pound of live weight in case of matured steers, it 

 will be conceded, leaves but a small chance of cash profit. 

 The largest daily increase in live weight in case of any diet 

 thus far experimented with was 0.46 pounds per 100 pounds 

 of live weight, in case of two yearlings weighing from 650 

 to 700 pounds each at the time. In case of two-year-old 

 steers, weighing at the time from 1,150 to 1,200 pounds, it 

 amounted to 0.30 pounds per 100 pounds of live weight. 

 The one-year-old steers had gained daily in weight 2.90 

 pounds per head, and the two-year-old steers 3.40 pounds 

 per head. These results were obtained in both instances in 

 connection with the same diet per head. 



Grain Feed. — "Wheat bran, Chicago gluten meal, 3.8 

 pounds each ; or wheat bran, old process linseed meal, 4.0 

 pounds each. 



Coarse Feed. — Corn ensilage, 40 pounds to yearlings, 

 75 pounds to two-year-old steers. 



The market price of these daily fodder rations per head 

 was 14-15 cents in case of yearling steers, while in case of 

 the two-year-old steers it amounted to from 18.5 to 19.5 cents 

 per head. 



To cover the local market cost of the daily fodder ration 

 consumed, in view of our local market cost of dressed l^eef, 

 5| to 6 cents, which quite closely corresponds to 3| cents 

 per pound of live weight of matured steers, would require a 

 daily increase in live w^eight of 3.9 pounds in case of year- 

 lings and of 5 pounds in case of two-year-old steers. Our 

 results fell behind in gain per day 1 pound in case of one- 

 year-old steers, and 1| pounds in case of two-year-old steers, 

 to cover the outlay for feed. As the obtainal^le manurial 

 matter of the feed consumed had a commercial value equal 

 to one-half of the market cost of the feed consumed, we 

 secured valuable articles of plant food at one-half of their 

 market cost, besides disposing of our home-raised fodder 

 crops at liberal retail prices. 



The growth of our upland meadows is evidently too costly 

 a fodder article to serve to any extent for an economical 

 production of beef. The majority of pastures furnish too 

 scanty a supply of fodder, without a supply of feed from 



