102 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



live weight due to these changes amounted in our case to 

 from twenty to twenty-five pounds, per head, on each occa- 

 sion and in case of both animals. 



3. Feeding Record of Second Winter Season. 



Oct. 14, 1890, to March 3, 1891. 



[Coarse fodder articles : upland meadow hay, barley straw, clover hay, corn ensi- 

 lage, turnips ; fine fodder articles : barley meal, wheat bran, cotton-seed meal.] 



The steers, upon returning from the pasture, September 30, 

 were allowed for a week or more, some hours every day, an 

 out-door exercise, to make the change for a sul)sequent close 

 confinement and a systematic system of feeding a gradual 

 one. The mode of feeding was the same as during the pre- 

 ceding winter season. The daily grain-feed rations consisted 

 either of wheat bran and cotton-seed meal, 3.5 pounds each, 

 per head, or of wheat bran, barley meal and cotton-seed 

 meal, varying from 3 to 3.5 pounds each, per head, at dif- 

 ferent times. The daily coarse-feed ration consisted at 

 different times in varying proportions either of English hay, 

 or of English hay and barley straw, or of English hay, clover 

 hay and turnips, or of clover hay and corn ensilage ; the 

 amount consumed was controlled by the appetite of each 

 animal on trial. The subsequent detailed statement of 

 fodder rations used represents in each case the average com- 

 position of the daily diet during succeeding feeding periods. 

 The change from one daily diet to another is in all cases a 

 gradual one, to avoid as far as practicable serious disturlj- 

 ances in diirestion. 



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Local Market Cost per Ton of the Various Articles of Fodder used. 



Wheat bran, |23 50 



Barley meal, 30 00 



Cotton-seed meal, 27 50 



Barley straw, 5 00 



Hay, 15 00 



Clover hay, 12 00 



Turnips, 4 00 



Corn ensilage,' 2 75 



