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Cattle Feeding Experiment. 



The following (able, si lowing the record for yearling steers 

 as determined in H)04 and published in Itulletin 85, is intro- 

 duced here to show the relative efficiency of similar rations 

 with younger rattle. The yearlings were in better flesh at the 

 beginning so that a comparison of the cattle at different ages 

 should not be made : 



TABLE III. Averages for yearling steers, December 26, 7903, to June 26, 1904. 



DEDUCTIONS FROM THE TWO EXPERIMENTS SUMMARIZED IN 

 TABLES II AND III. 



(1) Iy adding one pound of oil-meal to every nine pounds 

 of corn to furnish protein lacking in a ration consisting of 

 corn and prairie hay, 5 per cent less grain was required for 

 each pound of gain on 1 \vo-ycar-old steers and 23 per cent 

 less on vearlinus. 



