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three months of the experiment, an average of about 25 

 pounds to each steer per day. Lots 5 and 6 were never in- 

 creased beyond 14 pounds of corn per day. They consumed 

 much more roughness, however, as their record indicates. 



The results of one experiment with these steers in which 

 wheat bran, linseed-meal and cottonseed-meal were compared 

 are published on page 18 of this bulletin for purposes of com- 

 parison with the previous winter's test in which the same feeds 

 were used. The records of Lots 4 and 5 are published on page 

 24, in the experiment entitled "Light versus Heavy Grain 

 Ration/' the steers in Lot 4 having been fed heavily on grain 

 for a period of five months and those in Lot 5 very moder- 

 ately for six months. The steers in Lot 6, the financial state- 

 ment of which follows, were also fed six months on the same 

 quantity of grain supplied Lot 5. During the first two 

 months the steers in Lot 6 were fed a large part of their corn 

 on the stalk as corn-fodder to serve as a comparison with Lot 

 5 on snapped corn, while during the last three months they 

 were fed ground corn for a comparison with shelled corn fed 

 that period to the steers of Lot 5. The results of the corn 

 fodder versus snapped corn experiment and the shelled corn 

 versus corn-meal experiment will not be published until next 

 year when the records for a series of three years will be com- 

 pleted. It may be stated at this writing that the records to 

 date indicate that grinding corn for cattle does not pay when 

 there are pigs behind to consume the undigested corn in the 

 droppings. The data obtained in the other experiment dur- 

 ing two years show no particular advantage in favor of de- 

 taching the ears from stalks supplied fattening steers. How- 

 ever, all conclusions concerning this will be deferred until 

 more data are at hand. In the following Financial State- 

 ment of the sixty steers there is included a small item for cane 

 hay which was substituted for corn-stover during the closing 

 days of the experiment after the supply of stover had been 

 exhaust oJ: 



