CALF FEEDING IN ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. 



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The profit per calf as shown in Table 30 is computed on the basis 

 of a spread or margin of selling over purchase price of 1£, 2, 2% and 

 %\ cents per pound. 



Table 30. — Profit realized per calf if they sell for li, 2, 21, and 2\ cents above 

 cost price of 6^ cents per pound} 



Station and year. 



Sold at 



margin 



of— 



Profit per calf. 



Lotl. 



Lot 2. 



Lot 3. 



Alabama, 1911-12 



Cents. 



U 



2 



2i 



2i 



1§ 



2 



21 



2i 



li 

 2" 

 2J 

 2i 



n 



2 



2i 



2\ 



li 

 2 

 2 1 , 

 2V 



$5.80 

 a 75 

 10.24 

 11.65 



2.99 

 5.52 

 6.78 

 8.04 



-3.89 



- .76 



.79 



2.35 



3.98 



7.24 



8.87 



10.50 



6.11 

 9.33 

 10 94 

 12.55 



S4.37 

 7.17 

 8.58 

 9.98 



4.52 



7.06 

 8.33 

 9.60 



-5.99 



-2.11 



-1.41 



.11 



-2.90 



.42 

 2.08 

 3.74 



-4.12 



- .66 



1.07 



2.79 



$2.88 

 5.48 

 6.97 

 8.33 





Alabama, 1912-13 



5.50 





7.97 



9.21 



10.45 



Aboott, Miss., 1914-15 



-4.92 





-1.81 



- .24 



1.29 



Abbott, Miss., 1915-16 



-7.81 





-4.43 

 -2.73 

 -1.04 



Abbott, Miss.. 1916-17 





















1 No credit has been given in the table for the pork produced. 



Table 30 shows that when the average price of feeds for the last 

 two years is taken as a standard, the calves that were fed cottonseed 

 meal as the sole concentrate would have made a nice profit every 

 year, except one, on a margin of \\ cents per pound. 



During the years 1911-12 and 1912-13, when ear corn ground into 

 corn-and-cob meal was fed in very small quantities a bigger profit 

 was shown on a margin of \\ cents than where corn was fed in larger 

 amounts daily. The work of each of the first two years is strictly 

 comparable with each other, and the work of each of the last three 

 years is also comparable, but as light corn rations were fed the first 

 two years and heavy ones the last three years, the two groups of 

 years are not comparable with each other. In the work of the last 

 three j^ears, where a medium to heavy grain ration was fed, there 

 would be naturally a larger pork credit per calf, otherwise the heavy 

 corn feeding would have been very unprofitable. 



The calves that were fed corn liberally made more rapid gains than 

 calves fed on cottonseed meal alone and fattened much faster, as 

 there was a tendency for the calves that were fed cottonseed meal as 

 the sole concentrate to grow instead of fattening. The corn-fed 



