CALF FEEDING IN ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. 
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The profit per calf as shown in Table 30 is computed on the basis 
of a spread or margin of selling over purchase price of 1J, 2, 2 \ and 
2J cents per pound. 
Table 30. — Profit realized per calf if they sell for 1%, 2, 2£, and 2\ cents above 
cost price of 6£ cents per pound. 1 
Station and year. 
Sold at 
margin 
of— 
Profit per calf. 
Lot 1. 
Lot 2. 
Lot 3. 
Alabama, 1911-12 
Cents. 
n 
2 
2\ 
2J 
U 
2 
21 
2J 
9 
2| 
n 
2 
2i 
2i 
1* 
2 
2\ 
2i 
$5.80 
8.75 
10.24 
11.65 
2.99 
5.52 
6.78 
8.04 
-3.89 
- .76 
.79 
2.35 
3.98 
7.24 
8.87 
10.50 
6.11 
9.33 
10 94 
12.55 
$4.37 
7.17 
8.58 
9.98 
4.52 
7.06 
8.33 
9.60 
-5.99 
-2.11 
-1.41 
.11 
-2.90 
.42 
2.08 
3.74 
-4.12 
- .66 
1.07 
2.79 
$2.88 
5.48 
6.97 
8.33 
Alabama, 1912-13 -. 
5.50 
7.97 
9.21 
10.45 
Aboott, Miss., 1914-15 
-4.92 
-1.81 
- .24 
1.29 
Abbott, Miss., 1915-16 
-7.81 
-4.43 
-2.73 
-1.04 
Abbott, Miss.. 1916-17 
1 No credit has been given in the table for the pork produced. 
Table 30 shows that when the average price of feeds for the last 
two years is taken as a standard, the calves that were fed cottonseed 
meal as the sole concentrate would have made a nice profit every 
year, except one, on a margin of 1J cents per pound. 
During the years 1911-12 and 1912-13, when ear corn ground into 
corn-and-cob meal was fed in very small quantities a bigger profit 
was shown on a margin of 1J cents than where corn was fed in larger 
amounts daily. The work of each of the first two years is strictly 
comparable with each other, and the work of each of the last three 
years is also comparable, but as light corn rations were fed the first 
two years and heavy ones the last three j^ears, the two groups of 
years are not comparable with each other. In the work of the last 
three years, where a medium to heavy grain ration was fed, there 
would be naturally a larger pork credit per calf, otherwise the heavy 
corn feeding would have been very unprofitable. 
The calves that were fed corn liberally made more rapid gains than 
calves fed on cottonseed meal alone and fattened much faster, as 
there was a tendency for the calves that were fed cottonseed meal as 
the sole concentrate to grow instead of fattening. The corn- fed 
