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TABLE 2. Average Cost of Summer and Winter 'Gains. 



*Keep of dam not charged. **Keep of dam charged. 



Feeds charged as follows: Cottonseed at $14.00 per ton; green 

 sorghum at $1.50 per ton; mixed hay at $6.00 per tori; pasture 

 charged at $2.50 per acre for season. 



In the winter all cattle had access to the corn, cotton 

 and pea-stubble fields of the plantation, and were fed some 

 hay and a small amount of cottonseed to keep them in a 

 reasonable condition of flesh. The average cost of winter- 

 ing those animals that were more than twelve months of age 

 was |4.90 per head (See table 3). 



When the cost of wintering the dam was charged against 

 the calf, the cost of 100 pounds of gain was $9.42. As all 

 the other animals lost some in weight during this period, 

 the cost of gain could not be determined. 



The last column of Table 2 shows that when the cost of 

 keeping the dam was not charged against the calf, 100 

 pounds of gain for the whole year cost 51 cents, but when 

 the dam's yearly expense, as well as the pasture of the calf, 

 were charged against the calf, the total cost to make 100 

 pounds of gain was $3.30. The cost of keeping an animal 



