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2. Record of keeping the steers in the pasture. 

 May 10, 1890 to September 30, 1890. 



Date of turning steers into pasture, 



Date of closing pasturing, 



Number of days of pasturing, 



Live weight of steers when turned into pasture 



Live weight of steers at close of pasturing, 



Total weight gained during pasturing, 



Average gain in weight per day. 



Cost of feed per day, allowing 40 cents per 



week for use of pasture. 

 Cost of feed per pound of live weight gained, 



May 10, 

 Sept. 30, 

 144 

 840 

 923 

 83 

 0.58 



6.71 

 9.91 



1890. 

 lbs. 



To meet the expenses for the use of the pasture, per head, 40 cents 

 a week, requires a daily increase in live weight of 1.52 pounds, or 

 about twice as much as we actually secured. The daily increase in 

 live weight no doubt varies during the season more or less, in conse- 

 quence of changes in the weather and in the condition of the pasture. 

 A mere statement of the final results at the close of the season does 

 not show the degree of temporary adverse influence. Aside from 

 these circumstances there is, however, another serious source of loss 

 in live weight ; apparently unavoidably connected with a system of 

 changing from stall feeding to pasturing, and from the latter again to 

 stall feeding. The loss in live weight due to these changes amounted 

 in our case to from 20 to 25 pounds, per head, on each occasion and 

 in case of both animals. 



3. Feeding Record of Second Winter Season. 

 October 14th, 1890, to March 3d, 1891. 



Coarse fodder articles: Upland meadow hay, barlej' straw, clover 

 hay, corn ensilage, turnips. Fine fodder articles : Barley meal, 

 wheat bran, cotton seed meal. 



The steers upon returning from the pasture, Sept. 30th, were 

 allowed for a week or rhore, some hours every day, an outdoor 

 exercise to make the change for a subsequent close confinement and 

 a systematic system of feeding a gradual one. The mode of feeding 

 was the same as during the preceding winter season. The daily 

 grain feed rations consisted either of wheat bran and cotton seed 

 meal, 3.5 pounds each per head, or of wheat bran, barley meal and 

 cotton seed meal, varying from 3 to 3.5 pounds each, per head, at 

 different times. The daily coarse feed ration consisted at diflfereut 



