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BULLETIN 631, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 29. — Amount of feed consumed per hundred pounds gain and cost per 
hundred pounds gain. 
Station and year. 
Ration. 
Lotl. 
Lot 2. 
Lot 3. 
Alabama, 1911-12 
Feed per hundredweight gain: 
Cottonseed meal 
Corn-and-cob meal 
Cottonseed hulls 
Mixed alfalfa hay 
Cost per hundredweight gain 
pounds.. 
do.... 
134 
115 
58 
566 
238 
$8.68 
144 
72 
536 
1,084 
$9.39 
172 
86 
309 
690 
191 
$9.31 
ss 
353 
1,025 
269 
$9.65 
126 
250 
"$6."58" 
195 
391 
1,900 
S12.86 
77 
154 
do.... 
do.... 
528 
222 
$7.89 
175 
602 
255 
$9.64 
Alabama, 1912-13 
Feed per hundredweight gain: 
Cottonseed meal 
Corn chop 
Cottonseed hulls 
Corn silage 
pounds.. 
do 
176 
do.... 
do.... 
946 
438 
875 
$9.77 
214 
Abbott, Miss., 1914-15.. 
Feed per hundredweight gain: 
Cottonseed meal 
Corn-and-eob meal 
Cottonseed hulls 
Corn silage 
Alfalfa hay 
pounds.. 
..do 
112 
225 
do.... 
do.... 
do.... 
346 
774 
207 
$9.48 
213 
331 
753 
217 
$10. .33 
Abbott, Miss., 1915-16.. 
Feed per hundredweight gain: 
Cottonseed meal 
Shelled corn 
Corn silage 
Alfalfa hay 
pounds.. 
do 
489 
do.... 
do.... 
1,318 
268 
$8.55 
247 
"*"$5."64* 
299 
""'2,"460" 
$9.68 
769 
250 
$11.13 
Abbott, Miss., 1916-17: 
Summer 
Feed per hundredweight gain: 
Cottonseed cake 
Shelled corn 
Pasture 
Cost per hundredweight gain 
Feed per hundredweight gain: 
Cottonseed meal 
Shelled corn 
Corn silage 
Cost per hundredweight gain . 
pounds.. 
do 
do.... 
pounds.. 
do 
do.... 
Winter 
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The calf- feeding work of 1916-17 shows most clearly the value of 
pasture supplemented with a grain ration for fattening calves. The 
cottonseed-meal-fed calves of lot 1 made 100 pounds of gain in the 
summer for $5.04, whereas in the winter the same gain in weight cost 
$9.68. When one-third cottonseed meal and two-thirds shelled corn 
were fed as the grain ration the calves of lot 2 made gains during the 
summer at $6.58 and during the winter at $12.86 per 100 pounds. 
In Table 30 no account is taken of the pork that would be produced 
behind the calves receiving corn, and this amount must be calculated 
and added to the profits for the corn- fed calves. There would be no 
pork credit for the calves of lot 1, fed cottonseed meal, and a smaller 
credit for those fed corn-and-cob meal than the ones fed shelled corn 
or broken ear corn. At the present prices of pork, it would be con- 
servative to add a pork credit of $2 to $3.50 per calf for the calves 
of lots 2 and 3 for the last three years, depending upon the amount 
of corn fed to each lot. This amount of profit should be added to 
the profit shown in the table. 
In Table 29 it is seen that in every year except 1912-13 where corn 
was fed the cost of the gains was more than where cottonseed meal 
was fed as the sole concentrate. 
