116 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



2. Record of Summer Pasturing. 

 April 27, 1891, to Nov. 5, 1891. 



No. 1. 



No. 2. 



No. 3. 



Date of turning steers into pasture, 



Date of closing pasturing, 



Number of days of pasturing, 



Live weight of steers when turned 

 pasture 



Live weight of steers at close of pasturing. 



Total weight gained during pasturing. 



Average gain in weight per day, . 



Cost of feed, allowing twenty-flve cents per 

 week for use of pasture, 



Cost of feed per pound of live weight gained. 



into 



April 27, 1891. 



Nov. 3, 1891. 



190 



S30 lbs. 

 925 " 

 95 " 

 0.50 " 



$6 78 

 7.14 cts. 



April 27, 1891. 



Nov. 3, 1891. 



190 



805 lbs. 

 926 " 

 121 " 

 0.64 " 



$6 78 

 5.60 cts. 



April 27, 1891. 



Nov. 3, 1891. 



190 



848 lbs. 

 955 " 

 107 " 

 0.56 " 



$6 78 

 6.33 cts. 



The average gain in live weight per day, per head, was 

 0.95 pounds. To meet the expenses for the use of the 

 pasture, which was 25 cents, per head, for the week, requires 

 an increase in live weight of one pound, leaving our outlay 

 for moving the steers to the pasture and back again without 

 a return. Adding to this result the unavoidable falling off 

 in live weight, due to a change in mode of living, it is ap- 

 parent that pasturing without an additional supply of feed 

 from outside sources is apt to prove an unprofitable delay in 

 the maturing of young steers for the meat market. 



To demonstrate, if possible, the correctness of this view, 

 our more recent experiments with feeding young steers for 

 the meat market are carried on without the assistance of the 

 pasture. The animal is fed in the stable during the entire 

 experiment, without any out-door exercise beyond the re- 

 quirements of good health. 



