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 WEIGHING AND FEEDING 



The average weight of each steer for three days at the close 

 of the winter feeding was used as the initial weight for summer 

 feeding. They were weighed in lots at 10:00 a. m. at the end of 

 each 10 ('ay period, individually at the end of each 30 day period 

 and for three consecutive days at the beginning and the close of 

 the experiment. Shelled corn and cotton-seed meal were used as a 

 grain ration in both lots during each of the three experiments, fed 

 twice daily in such quantities as would be cleaned up readily in 

 one-half to three-quarters of an hour. The pasture cattle grazed 

 at will, where the}' had an abundance of grass throughout each of 

 the three years. The dry-lot cattle were fed mixed clover and tim- 

 othy hay the first year, corn silage and clover hay for the first month 

 of the second year, after which the silage was discontinued on 

 account of not having a sufficient number of cattle on feed to keep 

 it from spoiling during the hot weather, and clover hay the third 

 year. Roughage was fed in the dry lot in such quantities that it 

 would be cleaned up without waste. AYater was supplied each 

 lot from the town water supply in galvanized iron tanks, which 

 were cleaned out at frequent intervals. Salt was supplied once each 

 week in limited quantities. 



VALUATION 



The cattle were valued at the close of the winter feeding ex- 

 periment- on a basis of their actual worth on the Chicago and In- 

 dianapolis markets by members of the firms of Alexander, \Yard 

 and Conover. Chicago, and Yalodin, Parr, Moffitt and Co., of In- 

 dianapolis. These values were used as the initial values in the 

 summer feeding experiments. At the close of the summer feeding 

 they were sold on the Chicago market as one lot. after having both 

 buyers and salesmen estimate the difference between those fed in 

 dry lot and pasture. At the time the steers were divided into two 

 lots they were apparentlv consuming the same amount of feed. 



