FEEDING BABY BEEVES. 



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Since the nutritive ratio of the commonly accepted fattening standard 

 varies from 1:6.5 to 1:7.5, it will be seen that the above rations cor- 

 responded very closely to the standard, except in the case of Lot 2, whose 

 ration was somewhat narrower than the others. 



THE HOGS. 



Hogs followed the calves to clean up any grain in the droppings and 

 any waste of grain from the troughs. They received no other feed. 

 On January 19., two shoats were placed in the pen with each lot of calves. 

 They remained there until May 2, when they were marketed at Fort 

 Worth with other hogs shipped at that time. These shoats cost $7.00 

 per hundredweight and brought $9.60 per hundredweight when sold. 

 An account of the weights, gains, and financial returns is presented 

 in the following table: 



TABLE 5. 



On May 2, two other shoats were placed with each lot of calves to 

 replace those that were sold. Those of Lot 1 weighed 282 pounds; 

 those of Lot 2, 283 pounds; those of Lot 3, 272 pounds, and those of 

 Lot 4, 282 pounds. As the calves were receiving a heavy grain ration 

 at the time, two shoats to each lot did not prove to be a sufficient 

 number, and, therefore, June 7, another shoat was added to eadh lot. 

 These additional shoats weighed as follows: Lot 1, 140 pounds; Lot 

 2, 210 pounds; Lot 3, 1G5 pounds, and Lot 4, 180 pounds. These 

 hogs, now three to each lot, continued with the calves until the end 

 of the experiment, July 8. The total gains were as follows: Lot 1, 

 61 pounds ; Lot 2, 77 pounds ; Lot 3, 68 pounds, and Lot 4, 58 pounds. 

 As these hogs were not sold at the close of the experiment, only the 

 value of the gain has been considered in calculating the financial re- 

 turns. This value was placed at 9 cents per pound and was conserva- 

 tive, in view of the price of hogs at that time. On this basis the 

 returns were as follows: Lot 1, $5.49; Lot 2, $6.93; Lot 3, $6.12, and 

 Lot 4. $5.22. 



Combining the gains from the hogs used in the early part of the 

 experiment with those from the hogs used in the latter part, one gets 

 the following results: Lot 1, 150 pounds; Lot 2, 178 pounds; Lot 3. 

 165 pounds; Lot 4, 131 pounds. Combining the financial returns, one 

 finds that Lot 1 yielded $19.51; Lot 2, $21.97; Lot 3, $20.90, and 

 Lot 4, $17.85. 



