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eating most, the 60 head received about seven 

 bushels per day of shelled and cracked corn, or 

 about 6j^ pounds per head. They were given all 

 the roughage they would consume, and no especial 

 record was kept of the amount consumed at dif- 

 ferent parts of the feeding period. Basing an es- 

 timate of the total amount to be consumed from 

 November to May, inclusively, upon the amounts 

 which he had already fed up to the middle of 

 March, Mr. Flannigan stated that about 21 loads 

 of clover hay, and all the fodder from 30 acres of 

 unusually heavy corn would be consumed by the 60 

 head of calves. Fresh water was available to the 

 animals at all times, both day and night. A tank 

 heater was used in winter to keep the temperature 

 up. 



The calves spent the winter for the most part in 

 the open air. There was a large, straw-covered 

 shed, at one side of the corral, and the stock were 

 free to enter this shed at any time. They seemed, 

 however, to prefer the outside, even in the very 

 coldest nights of winter, except on two or three 

 occasions when a wet, heavy snow was falling. 

 The hogs following the cattle had shelled corn and 

 hominy grits where they could have access to them 

 in a pen apart from the cattle. Very rapid gains 

 were obtained from the hog feeding part of the 

 proposition. Approximately, two pounds per head 

 per day represents the gain of the cattle through- 

 out the feeding period. Mr. Flannigan sold these 

 cattle in May, and the average weight at this time 

 was about 750 pounds per head. In addition to the 

 cash returns, which gave a very high rate of gain, 

 both for the corn and forage consumed, a large 

 amount of valuable manure was available for use 

 upon the land. After the close of the feeding period 



