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year-olds, two-year-olds, and yearlings. Comparin 
groups there is obtained the figures below : 
tnese 
Average 
Weight, 
Dec. 27. 
Average 
Weight, 
Mch. 13. 
Gain in 
Weight. 
Weight 
in 
Denver. 
Shrinkage 
in Ship’g. 
Per Cent. 
of ■ 
Shrink. 
Gain in Weight 
from Dec. 27 to 
Denver. 
Four-year-olds.. 
Two-year-olds... 
Yearlings .... 
1289 
984 
736 
1419 
1091 
849 
130 
107 
113 
1358 
1042 
821 
61 
49 
28 
4.3 
4.5 
3.3 
69 
58 
85 
The four-year-olds gained the most rapidly of the three 
groups, and the two-year-olds the slowest. On shipping to. 
Denver, the four-year-olds also shrunk the most, this extra 
shrinking more than overcoming their extra growth • so 
that the yearlings made more gain from December 27 to 
their weight in December than either of the other groups. 
1 hese latter differences, however, are not great, amounting 
for the extremes to about one-fifth of a pound of growth 
per head per day. 
When account is taken of the food eaten, as well as the 
growth made, the results are as in the subjoined table : 
Average 
Weight. 
Gain in weight 
Dec. 27-Mch. 13. 
Pounds di¬ 
gestible mat¬ 
ter eaten. 
Pounds digesti¬ 
ble matter to 1 
pound growth. 
Value 
of food 
eaten. 
Valuefood 
eaten for 1 
Ibk growth. 
r our-year-olds .. 
T’wo-year-olds... 
Yearlings. 
1354 
1037 
792 
130 
107 
113 
1434 
1059 
961 
11.0 
9.9 
8.5 
m 65 
6 67 
6 20 
$.067 
.062 
.055> 
. The amount of food required has varied according to 
size the four-year-olds eating one-half as much again as'the 
yearlings, and the amount required for each pound of 
growth follows in about the same proportion. There is not 
so much difference in the value of the food eaten for each 
pound of growth, because the larger animals ate a propor¬ 
tionally larger amount of coarse fodder. The oldest 
animals ate the most value of food for each pound of 
growth, and the youngest the least. 
If to the cost of the steer when delivered on the farm 
there is added the value of the food eaten between then and 
December 27, when the experimental feeding began, the 
nnancial account from then until they were sold stands as 
follows : 
Cost 
Dec. 
27. 
Selling 
price in 
Denver. 
Excess of sell¬ 
ing price over 
cost Dec. 27. 
Value of food 
eaten Dec. 27 
to March 18. 
Profit per 
steer. 
Return for alfalfa 
per ton. 
hour-year-olds .. 
Two-year-olds... 
Yearlings. 
$39 97 
27 23 
17 61 
$51 67 
37 83 
29 27 
$11 70 
10 60 
11 66 
$8 65 
6 67 
6 23 
$3 05 
3 93 
5 46 
$ 8 00 
10 5 0 
16 00 
There is not much difference between the excess of the 
Denver price over the December 27 price for the three 
