6 MISSISSIPPI EXPERIMENT STATION. 



This lot should be considered individually rather than collectively. 



This arrangement left two steers to be accounted for, so they were 

 included in lot No. 1, making seven in that lot. Each of the four 

 lots were made up of cattle as nearly uniform in quality as possible. 



Lot No. 4 was fed the mixed ration, and lot No. 5 was fed hulls 

 and meal the same as lots Nos. 1 and 2 inside. 



STABLE AND YARDS. 



The stable used was built in an unused end of the Station mule 

 barn where there was plenty of storage room overhead for feed, and 

 which was as near the weighing scales as could be arranged. It was 

 modeled after the stables commonly used in the North. The cattle 

 were tied with chains in double stalls which were wide enough to allow 

 them to lie down comfortably. They were only taken out to be weighed. 



Fairly wide gutters were in the rear of the stalls to catch all the 

 excrement both liquid and solid, and the stables were cleaned each day. 



Metal lined water troughs were kept full of water in front of the 

 cattle at all times except before being weighed. The feeding yards 

 as first built were about 50 x 40 feet, but were enlarged to about twice 

 that size during the second feeding period when, owing to bad weather, 

 the yards had become excessively muddy. These cattle were supplied 

 with water from a large trough extending half its length into each yard. 



Each lot had a trough large enough to hold all their feed easily 

 and around which they could all stand and eat. 



FEEDS. 



The hulls and cottonseed meal used in the experiment were pur- 

 chased from the Starkville Cotton Oil Company and were always of 

 good quality. 



The hay used during the first two feeding periods was about two- 

 thirds alfalfa and one-third Johnsongrass, but during the third feeding 

 period only second class Johnsongrass hay could be obtained. The 

 cornmeal used was the best storemeal and the wheat bran was of good 

 quality. 



