Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 



and cottonseed hulls, $0.73 a hundred. The steers in lot I were fed 

 corn, cottonseed meal and crab-grass hay; lot II, corn, cottonseed 

 meal, sorghum silage, and cottonseed hulls ; lot III, corn, velvet beans 

 in the pod, and cottonseed hulls, and lot IV, cottonseed meal and 

 cottonseed hulls. TABLE I 



RATIONS PER THOUSAND POUNDS LIVE WEIGHT. 



*On February 16, the feed for this lot was changed to one pound of meal 

 to three pounds of hulls. This was done because the steers did not eat their 

 feed well, and appeared to have too much roughage for the amount of con- 

 centrate they were getting. 



Hg. 4. Steers ot Lot 11 at Deginnmg ot test. 



Fig. .5. Steers of Lot II at end of test. 



The steers were all started on a preliminary feeding on January l r 

 1908, and this was continued for two weeks, when all the steers in each 

 lot had become accustomed to the feeds and surroundings. On Jan- 

 uary 15, 1908, the feeding test proper began, and lasted eighty-four 

 days, closing April 8, 1908. 



