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weights were: Lot 1, 682; lot 2, 695; and lot 3, 663 pounds. The 

 average daily gains per calf were: Lot 1, 1.71; lot 2, 1.87; and lot 

 3, 1.59 pounds. 



3. All lots received corn silage, alfalfa hay, and cottonseed hulls 

 as roughage. Lot 1 consumed 214 pounds of cottonseed meal for 

 each 100 pounds gain. Lot 2 consumed 172 pounds of cottonseed 

 meal and 86 pounds of corn-and-cob meal per 100 pounds gain. Lot 

 3 consumed 112 pounds cottonseed meal and 225 pounds of corn-and- 

 cob meal for the same amount of gain. 



4. The costs per 100 pounds of gain were as follows: Lot 1, $6.31; 

 lot 2, $6.34 ; and lot 3, $7.40. The calves of all lots made gains very 

 cheaply. 



5. The amount of roughage required to make 100 pounds of gain 

 was greatest with lot 1 and the smallest with lot 2. 



6. The average profits per head for each of the lots were as fol- 

 lows: Lot 1, $5.67; lot 2, $2.98; and lot 3, $3.56. 



7. The shrinkage of lots 1, 2, and 3 was 36, 57, and 29 pounds, 

 respectively. The heavy shrinkage of lot 2 can not be explained. 



8. By market weights the calves dressed out as follows: Lot 1, 

 54.85 ; lot 2, 54.05 ; lot 3, 53.87 per cent. 



9. There were no pigs following the calves of lots 2 and 3. Under 

 these conditions it did not pay as well to feed. a mixture of cotton- 

 seed meal and corn-ancl-cob meal as it did to feed cottonseed meal 

 as the sole concentrate. 



IV. FATTENING CALVES ON COTTONSEED MEAL, CORN, 

 CORN SILAGE, AND ALFALFA. 



PLAN OF WORK. 



The calf- feeding work for the winter of 1915-16 was conducted on 

 the farm of Mr. Ben Walker near West Point, Miss., in the black- 

 prairie section of the State. As the lots, shelter, and watering facili- 

 ties have been described in connection with the previous year's work 

 it is needless to repeat here. The only difference in conditions was 

 that the calf pens were concreted during the summer months in order 

 that the calves would not be forced to stand in the mud as they had 

 during the latter part of the experiment of the previous year. 



The calves were of about the same grade as those of the previous 

 year, as half of them were raised on the farm and the other half 

 bought from a neighboring farmer for 5 cents per pound. The 

 majority of the calves were Shorthorns and Herefords, but a few 

 Angus calves also were included. All the calves had run with their 

 dams until about two weeks before the experiment started, when the 



