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COST OF GAINS. The cost of gains depends so largely on the 

 prices of feeds that a thorough discussion of the subject must neces- 

 sarily be based on different prices of feeds. In this trial the actual 

 prices of roughage were so far above normal that the results must be 

 presented with different prices for roughage in order to properly 

 connect these results with normal conditions. Table III shows the 

 average amount of feed consumed per pound gain and the cost of 

 100 pounds gain with feed at different prices. 



Table III. Showing Average Amount of Feed Consumed per Pound 



Gain and Cost per Hundred Pounds Gain with Feeds 



at Varying Prices 



RATION 



Feed per pound gain 

 shelled corn 

 cottonseed meal 

 clover hay 

 corn silage 



Cost per cwt. gain 

 1 Actual cost clover 

 hay $20 per ton; corn 

 silage $4.00 per ton 

 1 Clover hay $15.00 per 

 ton and silage $3.50 

 per ton 



1 Clover hay $10.00 per 

 ton and silage $3.50 

 per ton 



2 Clover hay $10.00 per 



ton 



Corn 40 cts. per bu. 

 Corn 50 cts. per bu. 



Dry matter consumed 

 per pound gain 



1 Based on the following prices of feeds: cottonseed meal, $29.00 per ton; corn, first 

 month 51.7 cents, second month 51.7 cents, third month 57.1 cents, fourth month 58.5 cents, 

 fifth month 64.2 cents, last ten days 71.2 cents 



2 Based on the following prices of feeds: cottonseed meal, $29.00 per ton; clover hay, 

 $10.00 per ton; corn silage, $3.00 and $3.50 per ton, according to whether corn is valued 

 at 40 cents or 50 cents per bushel 



The one factor in which corn silage has always shown superiority 

 over other roughages has been in the cost of gains. The results of 

 this trial are in accord with those of previous trials at this station in 



