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from the time they were weaned in the fall of the year until the 

 middle of May, when there was in each instance an abundance of 

 succulent pasture. If they had been turned out earlier in the sea- 

 son before grass had started there would not have been the marked 

 decrease in the consumption of grain, or if they had been fed on 

 a light grain ration during the preceding winter, so that they would 

 have gone on grass in stocker or feeder condition, their appetite for 

 grain would probably have been just as great as that of cattle kept 

 in the dry lot. Table I shows that there was a gradual increase in 

 the amount of grain consumed by the dry-lot cattle throughout the 

 90 days they were on feed. In the first test the pasture steers, 

 though given access to all the grain they would eat, never con- 

 sumed as much as those in the dry lot. During the second and 

 third tests the steers on pasture during the last three 10 day periods 

 consumed as much as those in the dry lot. 



