about 300 pounds less, while the lot of steers having a mixed 

 grain ration consumed 5362 pounds of stover, or some 500 

 pounds more. Then, again, instead of losing 200 pounds, as 

 did the steers without grain, or 85 pounds, as did those 

 having four pounds of corn meal, the steers on this ration of 

 mixed grain and corn stover gained 204 pounds. 



Therefore by replacing two-fifths of the corn meal by 

 that amount of cottonseed meal, and giving the steers all 

 the stover they would eat a gain of three-fourths of a pound 

 a day was made, while the steers on exactly the same 

 amount of grain in the form of corn meal and with all the 

 stover they would eat lost one-third of a pound daily. This 

 means that the substitution of I 2-3 pounds of cottonseed 

 meal a day for an equal amount of corn meal made a total 

 difference on the animal of more than a pound a day. 

 Rating this gain or loss in live weight at 5 cents a pound* 

 it is evident that each i 2-3 pounds of cottonseed meal 

 brought a return of 5 cents. 



Attention has already been called to the influence that 

 the protein in a cheap form like clover exerts upon the ef- 

 ficiency of the ration. It will be interesting to note in this 

 trial that in the combination of clover and stover without 

 grain the protein stimulated the appetite as it did in the case 

 of the cottonseed meal, as shown by the fact that 5324 pounds 

 of clover and stover were consumed, as compared with 4774 

 pounds of straight stover, and instead of the animals losing 

 200 pounds, as did those on straight stover, they gained, on 

 a combination of clover and stover, 24 pounds per lot, or an 

 average gain of something like one-tenth of a pound daily, 

 as compared with a loss of three-fourths of a pound daily on 

 stover alone. This will be referred to again at more length 

 when the results of other experiments along this line have 

 been presented. 



It will be interesting to compare the results obtained 

 from these various rations with that secured from timothy 

 hay alone. 



Note that a combination of a limited quantity of corn 

 meal with stover was really not more effective than timothy 

 without grain; but of more significance is the fact that a com- 

 bination of clover with this stover was much more effective 



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