36 BULLETIN" 631, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



To freight charges $29. 52 



To commission 7. 03 



To yardage, hay, etc 4. 83 



Total miscellaneous expenditures $41. 38 



Total expenditures 750. 76 



By sale of 15 calves— 10,170 pounds, at $8,662 per hundredweight- 880. 93 



Total net profit on lot 3 130. 17 



Average net profit per calf 8. 68 



In Table 19 no credit is given for the pork made by nogs follow- 

 ing the calves of lots 2 and 3. Without considering this, exceedingly 

 satisfactory profits were made on all the calves. The calves of lot 1 

 made a profit of $10.48 per head, those of lot 2 made $8.57 each, and 

 the calves of lot 3 realized a net profit of $8.68, after paying the 

 farmer an exceedingly good price for his corn, corn silage, and al- 

 falfa hay. 



Hogs were put in lots 2 and 3 to follow the calves, but owing to 

 cholera breaking out on one part of the farm some of the fattest 

 shoats were sold. Later some pigs and sows were permitted to fol- 

 low the calves, but with existing conditions accurate records could not 

 be kept of the gains made by them. It is estimated, however, that 

 there should have been a pork credit of at least $3 per calf for each 

 of the calves of lot 3. 



If the pork credit had been but $2 per calf in lot 3, that would 

 have meant that the calves that were fed a ration of shelled corn 

 alone had paid the farmer 70 cents a bushel for the corn produced 

 on the farm as well as market prices for all the roughage consumed, 

 and in addition made as much profit as the calves that had been fed 

 exclusively on cottonseed meal costing but $27 per ton. Further- 

 more it indicates that the diversified farmer of the South, with plenty 

 of nutritious feeds, as silage, alfalfa, clover or cowpea hay, and corn, 

 can finish out good calves without making cash expenditures for any 

 purchased feeds. The farmer who does not have corn to feed but 

 has good roughage, such as silage and hay, can feel sure that he can 

 make good gains and economical gains by feeding cottonseed meal 

 as the sole concentrate, but he can not get the calves quite as well 

 finished, because of their tendency to grow when fed a heavy protein 

 ration. 



RECORD OF MANURE PRODUCED. 



The calves were kept in pens having concrete floors under shelter, 

 and the pens were scraped out daily and the manure weighed. No 

 bedding was used, so there was some waste of liquid manure. Table 

 20 shows the amount of manure saved from the calves of each pen 

 or lot: 



