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same condition as when purchased, and allow them to fill up thoroughly 

 after the long drive to the College which most of them had/ 



In calculating the results, therefore, the cattle are valued at the 

 same price per pound at the beginning of the experiment as was paid 

 for them. 



WEIGHING. 



The cattle were weighed at the beginning of the experiment and 

 at the end of each feeding period, making four times in all. The usual 

 method of weighing for three consecutive days and averaging the 

 weights was adopted. Weighing was begun about nine A. M., the water 

 supply having been shut off at six p. M. the night before, thus preventing 

 any animal filling up with water and apparently adding thirty to fifty 

 pounds to his weight. 



FEEDING PERIODS. 



The cattle had to be weighed on scales outside in the yard and 

 the three feeding periods were divided as nearly equal as weather and 

 other conditions would permit. 



The first feeding period includes thirty-four (34) days for the 

 cattle in the stable and thirty-two (32) for those in the yard. The 

 second period includes twenty-eight (28) days and the third thirty- 

 four (34), for all lots. 



They were fed twice a day at six A. M. and five p. M. The troughs 

 were cleaned out each time before feeding and the waste feed weighed 

 and recorded. The roughage hay and hulls were fed first then 

 the meal which was thoroughly mixed with it, 



The lots receiving cottonseed meal and hulls had their ration divided 

 equally between two feeds, i. e., thirteen to fifteen (13-15) pounds 

 of hulls and three to four (3-4) pounds of meal at each feed. Those 

 receiving the mixed ration were given hulls in the morning and hay 

 at night. During the first period three pounds of cottonseed meal 

 was fed with the hulls and two pounds each of cornmeal and bran with 

 the hay. In the second period two pounds each of cottonseed meal 

 and bran were fed with the hulls and five pounds cornmeal with the hay. 



In the third period the cornmeal fed at night was increased one 

 pound daily up to ten pounds and two pounds cornmeal were fed 



