of corn, for a period of three and a half weeks, until they 

 became thoroughly accustomed to their new quarters and 

 until we had had the opportunity to study carefully each 

 individual and divide them into lots of uniform quality, 

 thrift, etc. 



This winter the experiment was conducted in a shed 

 open to the south, with access to small lots without grass. 



The experiment began December 26, 1901, and- con- 

 tinued until April 24, 1902, or 120 days. There were four 

 steers in each lot. 



Each steer was fed six pounds of grain daily, which in 

 all lots except one was shelled corn. In lot VIII. it was a 

 mixture of four pounds of corn and two pounds of cotton- 

 seed meal. 



The various roughnesses fed were as follows: 



Lot I. Timothy Hay. 



Lot II. Clover Hay. 



Lot III. Alfalfa Hay. 



Lot IV. Cowpea Hay. 



Lot V. Sorghum Hay. 



Lot VI. One-half Corn Stover, one-half Clover Hay. 



Lot VII. One-half Wheat Straw, one-half Clover Hay. 



Lot VIII. Wheat Straw. 



It will be recalled that the summer of 1901 was ex- 

 ceptionally dry, practically no rain having fallen from the 

 middle of April until the end of the summer season. 

 The quality of the forage produced that year was, there- 

 fore, exceptional. Having a very small content of moist- 

 ure at the time of harvest, it was cured readily, necessa- 

 rily without rain, and with a minimum of bleaching by 

 the sun, Owing to the very limited amount of moisture 

 in the ground, the yield was light, which means that the 

 material was very fine, and had presumably the minimum 

 amount of woody fiber. In short, wheat straw in a season 

 like this had almost if not quite as much quality as tim- 

 othy hay has in seasons that are exceptionally wet and 

 when it is subjected to drenching rains in the process of 

 curing. 



In view of the further fact that the weather of the 

 winter was uniformly dry, with temperature cold enough 



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