for the period. The maximum daily amount of alfalfa hay con- 

 sumed by any individual in the lot was 5.68 pounds and the average 

 maximum amount consumed was 3.29 pounds. 



The age at which the calves in Lot II developed an appetite for 

 corn silage was eight and one-half weeks. One calf ate a small 

 amount of corn silage after the third week; two during the sixth 

 week ; one during the eighth week ; two during the ninth week ; 

 two during the tenth week ; one during the eleventh week ; and one 

 during the thirteenth week. One of the calves that began to eat 

 silage during the tenth week ate it for but two weeks, refusing 

 it until the twenty-first week. Another calf that ate silage during 

 the sixth and seventh weeks, refused the feed after this time until the 

 sixteenth week. The daily amount of corn silage consumed varied 

 from the insignificant amount of .02 pound during the fifth week to 

 .44 pound during the twenty-fifth week. The calves were consuming 

 .25 pound during the thirteenth and fourteenth weeks. The average 

 daily consumption of corn silage for. the entire period was .22 pound 

 or approximately, 40 pounds for the period. The average maxi- 

 mum daily consumption was less than one-third pound and the mini- 

 mum amount .11 pound. 



TABLE XXIX. Showing Cost and Composition of Ration 

 Received by Lot II 



FOOD NUTRIENTS RECEIVED BY LOT II. The importance of a 

 calf meal depends upon its ability to reduce the cost of growing 

 young stock. The calves receiving the home-mixed calf meal cost 

 $12.93 per head. The whole milk consumed represents 24.82 per 

 cent. ; the calf meal, 37.71 per cent. ; alfalfa hay, 23.04 per cent. ; and 

 the dry mash, 13.76 per cent, of the total cost. The milk portion of 

 the ration, which includes both the whole milk and the calf meal, cost 

 $8.09, or 62.56 per cent, of the total feed cost of the calves in Lot II 

 to the age of six months. 



