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RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT. 

 TABLE III. 



WEIGHTS AND GAINS BY PERIODS. 



Table III shows the weights and gains by periods. The steers in 

 all lots except lot IV made good gains from the beginning to the end 

 of the feeding experiment, and in the last 24 days of feeding the steers 

 in lot IV also made satisfactory gains. The weights are the averages 

 of weighings on three consecutive days. 



TABLE IV. 



WEIGHTS AND GAINS. 



Table IV shows the weights and gains per lot and per head, the 

 average daily gains, the pounds of food required to make one pound 

 of gain, and the cost of one pound of gain. A glance at this table 

 shows that the steers in lot III not only made the best gains, but the 

 cost per pound of gain was considerably less than for the other lots of 

 steers. It will be noticed that the cost of one pound of gain decreases 

 as the average daily gain increases. The amount of feed consumed 

 does not wholly determine the average daily gain or the cost per pound 

 of gain. But the nutritive ratio of the rations fed, as is seen in the 

 case of lot IV, to a large extent controls the average daily gain, and 

 the cost per pound of gain. The nearer a balanced ration is fed 

 (nutritive ratio 1:6 or 1:7), the larger average daily gain may be 

 expected, and the cheaper will be the gain per pound. 



It will be seen that the steers in lot IV, on cottonseed meal and 

 cottonseed hulls, made only an average daily gain of 1.848 pounds, 



