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for support into a good pasture ; no additional food from 

 any outside source was offered during that period. 



4. A greater variety of coarse and fine fodder articles 

 was used in the preparation of the daily diet at different 

 stages of the experiments during the second winter season 

 than on the preceding occasion. 



Second Feeding Experiment with Steers. 

 December, 1889, to March, 1891. 



Two one-year-old steers, grade Shorthorn, of foirly cor- 

 responding general condition, served in the trial. They 

 were bought at 3| cents per pound of live weight. No. 1 

 weighed 675 pounds, No. 2 weighed 600 pounds, when 

 liought. The systematic feeding began during the middle 

 of December, 1889, both receiving as far as practicable at 

 all times the same daily fodder rations. The mode of feed- 

 ing was the same as described in the preceding experiment, 

 — twice a day ; water was offered two hours after feeding. 



The grain-feed part of the daily diet was at all times a 

 definite one, and the same in quantity and quality in case of 

 both animals. The amount of the coarse feed consumed 

 daily was governed by the appetite of each animal. The 

 composition of the daily fodder rations used during the first 

 winter season, 1889-90, differed materially from those used 

 during the second winter season, 1890-91. This circum- 

 stance renders it advisable, in the interest of a due appre- 

 ciation of the feeding results in different stages of the trial, 

 to state our results with reference to its thi'ee distinctly 

 different feeding periods; namely, feeding record of first 

 lointer season, of summer pasturing and of second winter 

 season. 



