112 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Accepting .is basis of calculation the selling price of 

 dressed beef, 3| cents per i)onnd, 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 w^hat extent each of the previously described fodder 

 rations has materialized the necessary increase in live 



weight : — 



