Clous combination of suitable feed stuffs for the preparation of an 

 economical diet, to render with us the production of beef for the meat 

 market remunerative. 



To assist in a desirai>le solution of that problem is the principal 

 motive for continuing our observation in the stated direction 



Some of the leading features in the management of ouv first feeding 

 experiment are retained in the course pursued during our second 

 experiment, which is farther on briefly described. The difference 

 between the latter and the first feeding experiment consists in the 

 following circumstances : 



1 . One set of young steers — yearlings — served from the beginning 

 to the end of the experiment. 



2. The observation extended over a period of sixteen months — 

 including two succeeding winter seasons, with summer pasturing 

 between them. 



3. The animals were kept in the stall, practically without any 

 outdoor exercise, during the late autumn, the winter, and the earlier 

 part of the spring. During the growing season, from May to the 

 middle of October, they were turned for support into a good pasture ; 

 no additional food from any outside source was offered during that 

 period. 



4. A greater variety of coarse and tine fodder articles were used 

 in the preparation of the daily diet at different stages of the experi- 

 ments during the second winter season than on the preceding occasion. 



SECOND FEEDING EXPERIMENT. 



December, 1889, to March, 1891. 



Two one-year-old steers, grade Shorthorns, of fairly corresponding 

 general condition served in the trial. They were bought at 3^ cents 

 per pound of live weight. No. 1 weighed 675 pounds ; No. 2 weighed 

 600 pounds, when bought. The systematic feeding began during the 

 middle of December, 1889, both receiving as far as practicable at all 

 times the same daily fodder rations. The mode of feeding was the 

 same as described in the preceding experiment, twice a day ; water 

 was offered two hours after feeding. 



The grain-feed part of the daily diet was at all times a definite one 

 and the same in quantity and quality in case of both animals. The 

 amount of the coarse feed consumed daily was governed by the 



