periment ; tne amount fed being guided by the appetite of the ani- 

 mals. The grain was fed twice daily ; the broken ear corn was first 

 placed in the manger and the cottonseed meal poured over it. The 

 hay and stover were fed after the grain, the hay being fed in the after- 

 noon, and the stover in the morning. While some of v the stover was 

 refused by each lot, the steers were always required to eat the grain 

 and hay up clean. 



At the beginning of each period enough ear corn was weighed 

 into bins for each lot to feed them during that period. At the end of 



Opsn shed in which Lot II of the shelter test was fed. 



the period any corn which had not been fed was reweighed and the 

 amount deducted from the original weight. The cottonseed meal was 

 weighed daily as fed. The hay and stover were weighed in bags for 

 each lot one week in advance. Samples of hay and stover were taken 

 at each weighing and sent to the chemical laboratory for determina- 

 tion of loss on air drying. At the close of each period the refused 

 tover was weighed and .samples taken for the same purpose. A corn- 

 site sample of the cottonseed meal was taken for each period by 

 taking a small quantity from each bag as opened. At the time of 



