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4. Cost of Feed. 



The commercial valuation of the previously described 

 daily average fodder rations during the five feeding periods 

 of our experiment is based on the below-stated contempo- 

 rary local price of the various fodder articles used in their 

 composition : — 



Local Market Cost 2'>er Ton of the Vario^is Articles of Fodder used. 



Corn meal, $31 00 



Wheat bran, 22 00 



Maize feed, 25 00 



Cotton-seed meal, 29 00 



English hay, 15 00 



Sweet corn stover, 5 00 



Dent corn stover, 5 00 



Sweet corn ensilage, 2 50 



Dent corn ensilage, 2 50 



Sugar beets, 5 00 



Summary of Cost of the Above-stated Average Daily Fodder 



nations used. 



[Cents.] 



Feeding Periods. 



II. 



III. 



IV. 



Total cost, 



Maiiurial value obtainable. 



Net cost,* .... 



20.32 



8.60 



11.72 



* Allowing eighty per cent of the manurial value obtainable from the feed consumed. 



Total cost of each daily ration represents the sum of the 

 market cost of the quantity of the different fodder articles 

 contained in that particular daily diet. 



JVet cost of a fodder artit^lc represents the cost of the 

 article, less the commercial vahic of tliat portion of the 

 various quantities of the different essential fertilizing con- 

 stituents they contain Avliich passes into the animal excre- 

 tions, liquid and solid, and becomes thus availal^le in the 

 manurial refuse resulting from its consumption. The value 

 of the manurial refuse obtainal)lc from one and the same 



