8 BULLETIN 1024, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The following table shows the number of calves born and raised in 
each lot each season, with the average weight at birth of each lot. 
TABLE 5.—Numbers and birth weights of calves produced by each lot of cows. 
Lot 
1 | Corn silage, mixed hay, and straw 
Average 
Ration. 
2 | Corn silage, soy-bean hay, straw.-.....-...-1.....-:..+.. 
Average 
3 | Corn silage, straw, and cottonseed meal..........------- 
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4 | Shock corn, mixed hay, and straw........-...-......- : x 
CALVES PRODUCED AND THEIR BIRTH WEIGHTS. 
Calves 
Season. born 
per lot 
1915-16 10 
1917-18 9 
1918-19 10 
1917-18 10 
1918-19 9 
1915-16 | 10 
1917-18 =20'8 
1918-19 10 
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| 1915-16 | 10 
Table 5 shows that, in 1915-16, 30 calves were dropped, 2 of which 
died. In 1916-17 the cows were sold at the end of the winter feeding 
Fic. 5.—Lot 
period. In 1917-18, 27 calves were dropped. 1 of which died. In @ 
3. 
Cows fed corn silAge, cottonseed meal, and wheat straw, at the end of 
the winter period, APES oO etOnO» 
Average 
Calves birth 
raised weight 
per lot. | per calf, 
by lots. 
Pounds. 
62.9 
9 70.3 
10 64.6 
9.7 65. 8 
10 62.8 
9 73.0 
9.5 66 
9 67.0 
7 64.6 
10 64.6 
8.7 65.5 
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1918-19, 29 of the cows dropped calves and raised all of them. 
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