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Calf No. B 113 first showed signs of a decline at twelve days of 

 age. Again at fifteen days of age, a slight attack of scours appeared. 

 As with No. 109, this calf gradually declined in strength, showing a 

 serious lack of proper nutrition. At thirty-four days of age, it 

 was so weak that it could not stand while eating. A peculiar part 

 of this calf's condition was its greedy appetite even though too weak 

 to stand. Conditions failed to improve and the calf died at forty 

 days of age. 



TABLE XL. Showing Live Weight, Gain, and Cost of Gain of the 

 Individual Calves in Lot III 



VARIATION IN LIVE WEIGHT OF CALVES IN LOT III. The birth 

 weight of the calves that received the ration containing the Blatch- 

 ford's Calf Meal, averaged 68.2 pounds. The calves in this lot were 

 quite uniform in weight at birth. The extremes in weight were 98 

 pounds and 45 pounds. At the end of the experiment, Lot III 

 averaged 200.2 pounds per calf. The heaviest calf in the lot weighed 

 37.8 pounds more and the lightest, 40.2 pounds less than the average 

 for the lot. None of the calves maintained the same relation in 

 weight at birth and at the end of the six months period. The heavi- 

 est calf at birth, together with one of the lightest, died during the 

 first part of the experiment. The heaviest calf that lived stood sixth 

 in respect to total gain. The thriftiest calf weighed 64 pounds at 

 birth or 4.2 pounds below the average for the lot. The lightest calf 

 at birth weighed 185 pounds at the end of the experiment, or fifth 

 place from the standpoint of total gain. The fact that all of the 

 calves failed to gain consistently from the beginning to the end of 

 the experiment indicates' that the ration which they received was 

 not well adapted for animals at this age. The extreme difference in 

 weight of the calves at birth was 53 pounds and at the* end of the 



