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Table 6 gives the record from November 2, 1909, to March 

 18, 1910. 



Table 7 .gives the record from March 18, 1910, to May 4, 1910. 



Table 8 gives the record from May 4, 1910, to August 5, 

 1910. 



It should be noted that Tables 6 and 7 cover the same time 

 as Table 5. There was a change in the conditions on March 

 18 of the third winter. Tables 6 and 7 show the difference in 

 the two parts of the period covered by Table 5. In Table 5, 

 Sub-periods 5A and 5B are combined. During Sub-period 5B 

 the steers all ran together and were fed alfalfa and prairie hay. 

 This favored the lots that previously had not been fed alfalfa 

 in that it furnished them a new and better kind of forage than 

 they were to have received. 



The chief disturbing factor, brought about by the unavoid 

 able change made at the end of Sub-period 5 A, was in the 

 shrinkage on the fleshier lots during Sub-period 5B. However, 

 tho this change was a disturbing factor it did not affect the 

 final results sufficiently to cause any appreciable change in the 

 profit or loss on the steer and in the relative standing of the 

 rations. It was decidedly unfavorable to the steers fed rations 

 containing alfalfa, and therefore favorable to those formerly 

 not fed alfalfa. 



We have compiled several tables from the preceding tables 

 in order to bring together in a more accessible form the sub- 

 jects of chief importance, such as the increase in weight during 

 winter and summer, the feed required for winter, the feed for 

 100 Ibs. of gain, the cost of feed for winter and for summer and 

 for 100 Ibs. gain, the relative value of the forage rations, and 

 finally the relative profit or loss resulting from the various 

 rations and the profit or loss on all the steers during the entire 

 experiment. 



