94 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



From these statements it will be noticed that the profit 

 secured by the operation consisted in the value of the ob- 

 tainable manure and in the disposition of our home-raised 

 fodder articles at fair local retail selling prices. The year- 

 lings proved more remunerative than the two-year-old steers. 



Two facts were apparently fairly demonstrated by our 

 first observation, namely : — 



1. Yearlings increase at a higher rate in live weight, 

 in case of a corresponding suitable diet, than iwo-year-old 

 steers, taking the total te^njporary live weight of the animal 

 on ti'ial as the basis for the comparison. The highest daily 

 increase in the live weight of the yearlings — 650 2)ounds 

 each — amounted in our first feeding experiment to 0.46 

 jpounds per one hundred pounds of live weight; and in that 

 of the two-year-old steers — 1,150 pounds each — to 0.3 

 pounds per one hundred pounds of live weight. 



2. Our local market price of young steers and of dressed 

 beef necessitates not only an exceptional care in the selection 

 of efficient and low-priced feed stuffs, but also a careful atten- 

 tion iri regard to a judicious combination of suitable feed 

 stuffs for the preparation of an economical diet, to render 

 with us the production of beef for the tneat marhet remuner- 

 ative. 



To assist in a desiral)le solution of that problem is the 

 principal motive for continuing our o])servation in the stated 

 direction. 



Some of the leading features in the management of our 

 first feeding experiment are retained in the course pursued 

 during our second experiment, which is farther on briefly 

 described. The difference between the latter and the first 

 feeding experiment consists in the following circumstances : — 



1. One set of young steers — yearlings — served from 

 the beginning to the end of the experiment. 



2. The observation extended over a period of sixteen 

 months, including two succeeding winter seasons, with 

 summer pasturing between them. 



3. The animals were kept in the stall, practically without 

 any out-door exercise, during the late autunm, the winter 

 and the earlier part of tlic s[)ring. During the growing 

 season, from May to the middle of October, they were turned 



