112 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Accepting as basis of calculation the selling price of 

 dressed beef, 3| cents per pound, it will be noticed that, to 

 cover the daily expenses for feed consumed in form of the 

 previously specified seven daily fodder rations, the following 

 rates in the daily increase in pounds of live weight become 

 necessary : — 



Gain required in Pounds, per Day, of Live Weight, to cover 



Expenses for Feed. 



The following detailed record of each steer on trial shows 

 to what extent each of the previously described fodder 

 rations has materialized the necessary increase in live 



weight : — 



