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This original cost, however, was increased to ap- 

 proximately $5 per 100 pounds by the time the ex- 

 pense of shipping from Kansas City to Franklin, 

 Ind., was added. They were about four or five 

 months old when they arrived upon Mr. Flannigan's 

 farm late in October. In order to make the change 

 from milk to dry feed less abrupt, he placed them 

 upon blue grass pasture for a short period, gradu- 

 ally introducing clean, new clover hay where they 

 could get it, and learn to eat it. Upon this hay, after a 

 short time, he sprinkled small quantities of cracked 

 corn, so that the calves would eat some of it with 

 the hay, and thus gradually acquire a taste for corn. 

 Later, he fed them small amounts of corn in the 

 shock, so that they learned to eat fodder. By the 

 time the calves were placed in the dry lot, some 

 time in November, they had learned to eat all kinds 

 of roughage as well as corn. 



Practically all the feed they received was pro- 

 duced on the farm, the only feed purchased being 

 some amounts of cottonseed meal. Corn fodder 

 and clover hay formed the roughage ration, and 

 cracked corn, with occasionally a little cottonseed 

 meal, was the grain ration. The calves made con- 

 tinued, steady gains from the very day they ar- 

 rived upon the farm. The fodder given them had 

 been cut and placed in large shocks in the very best 

 of condition, and came out all through the winter 

 bright, green and free from dust. It was greatly 

 relished by the stock. Although good, clean clover 

 hay was available for the calves every day, they 

 invariably ate their corn fodder first, apparently 

 relishing it more than the hay. 



The amount of corn was gradually increased until 

 the calves were given all the grain that they would 

 clean up every day. At the period when they were 



