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Conclusions. 



The results of the third feeding experiment with young 

 steers do not materially differ in their general aspect from 

 those obtained in our two preceding experiments. 



1. During the first winter season the daily gain in live 

 weight during the sixth feeding period reached 3.2 pounds 

 (steer No. 3), and it averaged for the entire lot of steers 

 (three) at that time 2.69 pounds per head. This gain repre- 

 sents 0.34 pounds on every one hundred pounds of live weight 

 of the animal on trial (800 pounds each). 



2. During the second winter season the same lot of steers 

 gained, during one feeding period (I. period), on an aver- 

 age, 2.5 pounds of live weight per day; in case of one steer 

 it was as high as 3.05 pounds per day. This rate of daily 

 increase in live weight is equal to 0.21 pounds on each 

 hundred pounds of live weight, with a total weight of 1,100 

 pounds per head. 



3. The total local market cost of the different stated 

 daily fodder rations used during the first winter season 

 varies from 10.7 to 18.36 cents, and their net cost from 

 4.46 to 9.10 cents, leaving manurial refuse equal in com- 

 mercial value to one-half of the local retail market cost of 

 the feed consumed. 



4. The total local market cost of the daily fodder rations 

 used during the second winter season varies from 12.2 to 

 20.28 cents, and their net cost from 5.1 to 12.01 cents, 

 leaving a manurial refuse equal to two-fifths of the local re- 

 tail market cost of the fodder articles which constitute the 

 stated fodder rations. 



5. The average daily gain in live weight, taking the en- 

 tire experiment into consideration, is somewhat higher than 

 that noticed in the second experiment ; yet at no period of 

 the trial does the daily increase in live weight at 3|- cents 

 market cost per pound of live weight equal the entire local 

 market cost of the feed consumed in connection with its 

 production. This result is due in some degree, no doubt, to 

 the contemporary high local market cost of some of the 

 fodder ingredients largely used in the making up of the 

 daily fodder rations. 



