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Cost of Keep of Three Heifers for One Week. 



Cost of 3 heifers on steamed food from the 20th of Feb- 

 ruary till the 20th of May, 12 weeks, 5 days, at 

 14.93 per week, $62 66 



Cost of 3 heifers on raw food from the 20th of February 

 till the 20th of May, 12 weeks, 5 days, at $3.62 per 

 week, 47 99 



Total additional cost of 3 heifers fed on steamed food, 



above those on raw food, $14 67 



Estimate of Profit and Loss. 

 Value of three heifers on steamed food, at 20th February — 

 Value of dead weight, sinking offal. 

 Add cost of keep, as above. 



Total cost, 

 Value when killed, . 



Profit on heifers on steam food, 



Value of three heifers on raw food 

 Value of dead weight, sinking offal, , 

 Add cost of keep, as above. 



Total cost. 

 Value when killed, . 



Profit on cattle on raw food, 



The estimates on the feeding of the steers arrive at similar 

 results ; the loss on one steer fed on steamed food being 

 82 cts. ; while the profit on one steer fed on raw food was 

 $2.41. These two steers were turned to grass the following 

 summer, and both increased equally in weight, no difference in 

 their thrift at grass, having been produced by the two modes of 

 winter feeding. 



Every American farmer will be struck in reading the above 

 experiment with the fact that no hay at all was used in the 

 feeding, and so little straw, and of so poor a quality, as not to 

 be taken into the account. This is very much the case in a 

 large proportion of cattle feeding in Great Britain. Mr. Hors- 



