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nine o’clock in the forenoon. There is an average shrink 
of twenty pounds from Fort Collins to Denver, and a 
shrink of forty-six pounds from March 13, a. m., weight. If 
sold in Fort Collins, it would have been ‘‘any time after 11 
a. m., after feeding and watering,” and would probably have 
given an average weight of 1,139 pounds, which is 65 pounds 
more than the Denver weight. The Fort Collins weight 
would have been subject to a four per cent, shrink, or 46 
pounds, which would leave the Denver weight 21 pounds 
less than the Fort Collins weight with a four per cent, shrink. 
1 his is. the average, but for the several pens the results are 
quite different. The difference between the Denver weight 
and Fort Collins weight with 4 per cent, shrink is, four 
pounds for pen No. 1; eighteen for pen No. 2; forty- 
eight for pen No. 3; fifty-seven for pen No. 4; six for pen 
No. 5; and seventeen for pen No. 6. Omitting the two pens 
that were fed on corn fodder and corn ensilage, the other 
pens together differ but eleven pounds from a four per cent, 
shrink. It can be said then, that, on ordinary feed, a four 
per cent, shrink represents very closely the difference be¬ 
tween farm weight and Denver weight. Or, to put it in 
another way, cattle shrink about four per cent, from Fort 
Collins to Denver. When it is remembered that ten per 
cent, is the commonly estimated shrink from Fort Collins to 
Chicago, it will be seen how much advantage Denver has 
over the latter market 
RELATIVE VALUE OF DIFFERENT FEEDS. 
Corn b odder and Corn Ensilage .—Pen No. 3 ate 2,948 
pounds of hay and 3,861 pounds of corn fodder; while pen 
No. 4 ate 2,651 pounds of hay, 885 pounds of corn fodder, 
and 7,972 pounds of corn ensilage. Each pen was fed all it 
would eat, and if both pens consumed the same amount of 
nourishment, then, by subtraction (changing the surplus of 
alfalfa to its approximate equivalent of co'rn fodder), 3,373 
pounds of corn fodder is equivalent to»7,972 pounds of corn 
ensilage. Then 2.4 pounds of ensilage is equal to one 
pound of corn fodder, or 100 pQiinds of ensilage is equal to 
42 pounds of corn fodder. 
As already stated, this is on the supposition that, in 
each case, the steers took equivalent amounts of nourish¬ 
ment. Or, it shows the relative amounts that will be eaten 
of each if the steers are fed ad libitum. According to the 
chemical composition of each, 100 pounds of ensilage should 
be equal to 66 pounds of corn fodder. This shows a wide 
difference between the two. A possible explanation is that, 
