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the average for the lot. Practically, seven times as much water was 

 consumed as whole milk. The average age of the calves when they 

 began to consume water was two weeks. 



The calf meal was fed during the first week to some of the 

 calves in this lot. although the lot averaged 1.8 weeks of age as the 

 date the calf meal was first fed. The amount consumed varied 

 from .26 pound during the second week to 1.62 pounds during the 

 fourteenth week. After that time, it was thought best to reduce the 

 amount of calf meal fed, and a reduction was made to 1.42 pounds 

 by the twenty-second week. It was again increased after this date 

 to 1.49 pounds by the twenty-sixth week. The average amount of 

 calf meal consumed per day during the period was 1.33 pounds or 

 21.28 ounces. The average maximum amount required by any in- 

 dividual calf was 28.48 ounces and the minimum, when not re- 

 ceiving whole milk, was 18.08 ounces. The calf meal and water 

 were mixed in the proportion of one pound of calf meal to 6.49 

 pounds of water. 



The dry mash was first eaten during the second week, four calves 

 indicating a desire for this material at that time; four more were 

 added to this list during the third week, and two during the sixth 

 week. ( )ne of the calves that ate dry mash the third week, refused 

 this feed during the fourth and sixth weeks but ate it consistently 

 after the seventh week. The average age of the lot at the time the 

 calves began eating the dry mash was 3.2 weeks. The amount of 

 dry mash consumed varied from .TI pound during the third week to 

 1.5 pounds during the twenty-sixth week. The calves began con- 

 suming one pound of this mixture at fourteen weeks of age. The 

 average daily amount of dry mash consumed for the entire period 

 was .84 pound or approximately, 13.4 ounces. The maximum 

 amount consumed by any individual calf was 1.14 pounds or 18.24 

 ounces, and the minimum, .59 pound or 9.44 ounces. The total 

 amount consumed per head for the period was 152.88 pounds, equiv- 

 alent to 1.36 bushels of corn and 2.39 bushels of oats. 



Tlie alfalfa hay was first eaten at 3.2 weeks of age as an aver- 

 age for the lot. Vive calves began eating hay at two weeks, two at 

 three- weeks, one at four weeks and two at six weeks of age. The 

 amount of this material consumed by the calves in Lot II during 

 the time included in this experiment, showed a gradual increase 

 from the first to the last week. The first hay was eaten during 

 the second week. At eight weeks of age the calves were con- 

 >uming a pound per day; at thirteen weeks, two pounds per day; 

 at seventeen weeks, three pounds per day ; and at twenty-four weeks, 

 four pounds per day. The maximum amount of alfalfa hay con- 

 sumed was during the twenty-sixth week and amounted to 4.5 

 pounds per dav. The average daily amount of alfalfa hay con- 

 sumed for the period was 2.18 pounds, equivalent to 390.76 pounds 



