10 BULLETIN 1277, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Net Regressions on Three Other Factors of Daily Rate of Feeding Grain to Beef Cattle 
POUNDS GRAIN 
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60 120 180 240 
LENGTH OF FEEDING PERIOD IN DAYS 
300 
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AVERAGE 
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700 
800 900 1.000 
WEIGHT PER HEAD IN POUNDS 
AVERAGE 
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POUNDS PER. HEAD PER DAY 
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1.200 
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ROUGHAGE INPUT 
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16 
20 
Fig. 3. — The average quantity of grain fed per day was leas when the cattle were fed 
for Ions: periods, and it was heavier for heavy cattle After the effect of the two 
other factors bad been allowed for. there was no relation between the quantity of 
grain and the quantity of roughage fed 
