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manure will more than oll'set the other items. When, however, the 

 interest on the investment is taken into consideration there was a loss, 

 though small, on every lot except Lot 3, on which there was still a 

 small profit. 



Since, this year, there is an abundant crop of milo and its price is 

 much lower than when this experiment was conducted, it is of interest 

 to note the financial results in the case of Lot 4, with ground milo 

 heads costing 14 instead of $'?0 a ton. With the other feeds at the 

 prices previously stated the profit on this lot would have been $4.60 a 

 head instead of 34 cents a head. 



THE HOGS. 



Xovember 10. five shoats were placed in the pen with Lot 3, receiving 

 cotton seed meal, silage, and rice bran, and six shoats were placed in 

 the pen with Lot 4. receiving cotton seed meal, silage, and ground milo 

 heads. The five shoats of Lot 3 weighed, at that time, 350 pounds. 

 February 10, after following the cattle 83 days, they weighed exactly 

 the same as at the start. From then on they were fed additional feed 

 in the form of rice bran and made fairly satisfactory gains. However, 

 practically no returns can be attributed to them since they did no more 

 than maintain their weight while following the steers and receiving no 

 additional feed. The six shoats of Lot 4 weighed, at the start, 445 

 pounds. With the exception of two head, which died suddenly March 6, 

 evidently from cotton seed meal poisoning, they followed the cattle 

 until March 8, a period of 109 days. The total gain they made, includ- 

 ing that of the two that died, was 199 pounds, which, at 7 cents per 

 pound, would have amounted to $13.93. Credited to the steers this 

 would have made the profit from Lot 4, $1.50 a head instead of only 

 31 cc-nts a bend. 



On March 8, as neither the shoats of Lot 3 nor those of Lot 4 were 

 doinir well, and n? further losses seemed evident, they were removed 

 from the cattle feed pon= and fed ; no losses occurring after the change 

 was made. There is little doubt but that the hogs of Lot 4 would have 

 made much bettor : r ains while following the cattle, had the pen not 

 been ver mudd a large ortion of ihe time. 



It -hould not be oui of order at this point to state that occasionally 

 complaints are inade of poor results from the feeding of silaue. Tt is 

 found that such results are in most cases due to one or both of two 

 causes, first, the silage having been made from a crop that was not 

 -nflifientlv mature when placed in Ihe silo. and. second, the silage 

 having been fed without supplementing it with a feed relatively rich 

 in proiem, <\\<-}\ ;H eoilon seed meal. When a crop of corn, sorghum, 

 kafir. milo or feiorila is very green and immature it has not completed 

 the proee-s of building up dry matter and food materials from the soil 

 and air, and. therefore, if placer] in the silo at this stasre the percentage 



