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4. Cost of Feed. 



Tlie commercial valuation of the previously described 

 daily average fodder rations during the five feeding periods 

 of our experiment is based on the below-stated contempo- 

 rary local price of the various fodder articles used in their 

 composition : — 



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



Corn meal, $31 00 



Wheat bran, 22 00 



Maize feed, 25 00 



Cotton-seed meal, 29 00 



English hay, 15 00 



Sweet corn stover, 5 00 



Dent corn stover, 5 00 



Sweet coi-n ensilage, = 2 60 



Dent corn ensilage, 2 50 



Sugar beets, 5 00 



Summary of Cost of the Above-stated Average Daily Fodder 



Rations used. 



[Cents.] 



• Allowing eighty per cent, of the manurial value obtainable from the feed consumed. 



Total cost of each daily ration represents the sum of the 

 market cost of the quantity of the different fodder articles 

 contained in that particular daily diet. 



J^et cost of a fodder article represents the cost of the 

 article, less the commercial value of that portion of the 

 various (juantities of the different essential fertilizing con- 

 stituents they contain which passes into the animal excre- 

 tions, liquid and solid, and becomes thus available in the 

 manurial refuse resulting from its consumption. The value 

 of the manurial refuse obtainable from one and the same 



