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Cost of Producing Beef in Winter. [july, 



Table II. — Average Monthly Increase, 1906. 



Periods of 28 Days. 



Lot I. 



Lot II. 



Lot III. 



Lot IV. 







1st Period 

 2nd 



3rd „ 



4th „ 



. 5th „ 



Lb. 

 88-62 

 68-75 

 50'5o 

 25-37 

 40 • oot 



Lb. 



81-75 

 35-75 

 6l -50 



47-37 

 8l'SO+ 



Lb. 

 65-37 

 67-75 

 69-25 

 59-5o 



Lb. 

 76-62 

 75-oo 

 57-75 

 32-50 



Average daily increase 

 per head 



i 



} i'78 



i'75 



2- 02 



2-05 



+ In these two cases some of the more forward bullocks had been removed, leaving 

 those that had been kept back at first to finish. 



Woburn between the years 1884 and 1902 I have only found 

 one instance contradicting this principle. The following figures, 

 the result of a feeding trial in 1889-90, bring the fact out 

 very forcibly indeed* : — 



6 beasts. Average daily 6 beasts. Average daily 



gain. gain. 

 First period — 40 days. 



Ration — 



Cake,* 7-4 lb. 

 Hay, 12-4 lb 

 Roots, 40*5 lb 



L 3 



3-87 lb. 



Cake,* 3-7 lb. 

 Hay, 14-32 lb. 

 Roots, 43 lb. 



3 - 18 lb. 



Cake,* 8-97 lb. 

 Hay, 14-19 lb. 

 Roots, 40 lb. 



Cake,* 10 lb. 

 Hay, as before 

 Roots ,, 



::.} 



2-56 lb. 



1 -63 lb. 



Feeding 



Second period — 41 days. 



Cake,* 4-48 lb. 

 3-5 lb. Hay, 15-74 lb. 



Roots, 45 lb. 



Third period — 29 days. 



Cake,* 5 lb. 

 2 ' 20 lb. Hay, as before 



Roots ,, 



* Linseed and decorticated cotton, equal parts. 



Professor Henry in his well-known book on 

 publishes the following table illustrating the point : — 



Cost of Gain increases with Length of Fattening Period. 



Feed for 100 lb. gain. 



Up to 56 days 730 lb. 



» 84 ,, 807 „ 



112 ,, S40 ,, 



» Ho ... 901 ,, 



In the following, from the report of Professor Wood's Norfolk 

 Experiments, I have taken the weekly gains over the two 

 periods, and have attached to them the cost of each successive 

 gain in live-weight at present-day prices : — 



* Journal of F.A.S.E., 3rd Series, Vol. I) Part II, p. 399. 



