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cepted German standards call for more protein than is needed 

 for the best gains, and that a nutritive ratio of 1:8 may be 

 just as satisfactory for fairly mature cattle as one more nar- 

 row. For Western conditions it is certainly more profitable. 

 5. The margin between cost and average selling price 

 (net) for all steers in this experiment was a little less than 

 fl per hundred. While the profit was small, the steers re- 

 turned a good price for the rough feeds at the market values 

 quoted high enough to make them profitable crops to grow 

 on the farm. Had the feeds been sold, these values for rough- 

 age would not have been secured on the average Nebraska 

 farm, nor Avould the manure have been left to make the next 

 crop larger. The results furnish a strong argument in favor 

 of judicious feeding. 



AC K NOWLEDG M E N T. 



The feeding in this experiment was done by Mr. Joseph P. 

 Lamb, whose watchfulness, and accuracy in making weights 

 and keeping records, are worthy of this acknowledgment to 

 him. 



