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weights were: Lot 1, 682; lot 2, 695; and lot 3, 663 pounds. The 
average daily gains per calf were: Lot 1, 1.71; lot 2, 1.87; and lot 
3, 1.59 pounds. 
3. All lots received corn silage, alfalfa hay, and cottonseed hulls 
as roughage. Lot 1 consumed 214 pounds of cottonseed meal for 
each 100 pounds gain. Lot 2 consumed 172 pounds of cottonseed 
meal and 86 pounds of corn-and-cob meal per 100 pounds gain. Lot 
3 consumed 112 pounds cottonseed meal and 225 pounds of corn-and- 
cob meal for the same amount of gain. 
4. The costs per 100 pounds of gain were as follows: Lot 1, $6.34; 
lot 2, $6.34; and lot 3, $7.40. The calves of all lots made gains very 
cheaply. 
5. The amount of roughage required to make 100 pounds of gain 
was greatest with lot 1 and the smallest with lot 2. 
6. The average profits per head for each of the lots were as fol- 
lows : Lot 1, $5.67 ; lot 2, $2.98 ; and lot 3, $3.56. 
7. The shrinkage of lots 1, 2, and 3 was 36, 57, and 29 pounds, 
respectively. The heavy shrinkage of lot 2 can not be explained. 
8. By market weights the calves dressed out as follows: Lot 1, 
54.85 ; lot 2, 54.05 ; lot 3, 53.87 per cent, 
9. There were no pigs following the calves of lots 2 and 3. Under 
these conditions it did not pay as well to feed a mixture of cotton- 
seed meal and corn-and-cob meal as it did to feed cottonseed meal 
as the sole concentrate. 
IV. FATTENING CALVES ON COTTONSEED MEAL, CORN, 
CORN SILAGE, AND ALFALFA. 
PLAN OF WORK. 
The calf- feeding work for the winter of 1915-16 was conducted on 
the farm of Mr. Ben Walker near West Point, Miss., in the black- 
prairie section of the State. As the lots, shelter, and watering facili- 
ties have been described in connection with the previous year's work 
it is needless to repeat here. The only difference in conditions was 
that the calf pens were concreted during the summer months in order 
that the calves would not be forced to stand in the mud as they had 
during the latter part of the experiment of the previous year. 
The calves were of about the same grade as those of the previous 
year, as half of them were raised on the farm and the other half 
bought from a neighboring farmer for 5 cents per pound. The 
majority of the calves were Shorthorns and Herefords, but a few 
Angus calves also were included. All the calves had run with their 
dams until about two weeks before the experiment started, when the 
