14 BULLETIN 761, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
To 11,257 pounds oat straw, at $5 per ton-.-.-222254..-..--:-.-.).--.- $28. 14 
To 1,050 pounds Johnson grass, at $8 per ton......-.-.--------------- 4, 20 
otreightecharges\to market!s. Ssigeee . See wee eee tea sete eae 63. 00 
Tocommnssionmnvard age -aivenClCsame.. cee ey ee oe ies sr tee 23. 85 
Dotaliexpenditurels 2552 Ls TO: ee ae Sek eve ae ee 1, 869. 05 
By sale of 25 steers, 25,070 pounds, at $8.60 per hundredweight....... 2, 156. 02 
Total met profits, $. 2.82: ae LA: Pee oe eee yee ae 286. 97 
Average sprotit “per steers £22 s. A. Se EN ee Bt le ere 11. 48 
It will be noted from the foregoing statement that Lot 1 made a 
profit per steer of $15.19; Lot 2 a profit of $11.87, and Lot 3 made a 
profit of $11.48 per head. It will be remembered that lot 1 made 
lower gains than either of the other lots; Lot 2 was second in rate of 
gains; while Lot 3, which made the lowest profit, had the highest 
average daily gains. The cost of the gains made by the different lots 
is responsible, more than any other factor, for these differences. The 
gains made by Lot 1, while smaller than the others, were made at so 
much less per pound that a greater profit resulted. 
The two corn-fed lots brought 2 cents per 100 pounds moré than 
Lot 1, which received cottonseed meal only. This difference in sale 
price was due to one steer in Lot 1, which brought only $8 per hun- 
dredweight. 
The degree of finish and quality of the steers of all lots was about 
the same. When weighed at market there was a difference of only 
30 pounds in weight between Lots 2 and 3, they weighing 25,040 and 
25,070 pounds, respectively. The relation of the weights of the 
cattle changed very little throughout the test. 
In this experiment the steers fed on cottonseed meal showed a 
greater profit than either the lot receiving cottonseed meal and 
broken-ear corn or the lot receiving cottonseed meal and shelled corn. 
The differences in profits were due chiefly to differences in cost of 
gains. With more expensive cottonseed meal or with cheaper corn 
‘the differences, of course, would have been less. 
Twenty-five shotes followed the steers of Lots 2 and 3) but as an 
outbreak of cholera occurred on the place and the shotes got out sev- 
eral times, they were disposed of, and accurate records were not se- 
cured on the amount of pork produced from the refuse corn in the. 
droppings. 
Under ordinary conditions, with hogs worth 10 cents a pound, the 
pork credit for each steer for the 141-day period would undoubtedly 
have amounted to over $3 per steer. A credit of $3 per steer on Lots 2 
and 3 would have made the profits on these lots about the same as 
for Lot 1. 
Unless hogs are used to utilize the waste corn it would undoubtedly 
be less profitable to use corn for fattening steers than to use cotton- 
seed meal alone at the current prices of these feeds. 
