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The: Colorado Experiment Station. 
TABLE A. 
FEED FOR GAIN AND COST OF GAIN, 1906-07 
(Ten head in pen.) 
PEN 
NO. 
RATION 
Gain 
per 
Head 
13 
Weeks. 
Lbs. 
POU 
Grain 
NDS 
POUh 
Hay 
PEED FOl 
:ds GAIN 
Tankage 
1 100 
Beets 
*Cost of 
Feed 
for 
100 lbs. 
of Gain 
Stand¬ 
ing of 
Lots 
I. 
Barley ; alfalfa hay at 
pleasure . 
107 
508 
75 
• • • 
$5.27 
) 5 
II. 
Corn; alfalfa hay at 
)■ and 
pleasure . 
115 
508 
76 
• • • 
$5.27 
S 6 
III. 
Barley and corn, equal 
parts ; alfalfa hay at 
pleasure . 
131 
435 
67 
... 
$4.52 
1 
IV. 
Barley one part; wheat 
one part . 
115 
476 
... 
$5.95 
7 
V. 
Barley one part; peas 
one part . 
111 
482 
... 
$7.23 
10 
VI. 
Barley one part; 
shorts one part .... 
117 
457 
... 
$4.57 
2 
VII. 
Barley ten parts ; tank- 
age one part . 
130 
405 
46 
$4.97 
4 
VIII. 
Corn ten parts ; tank- 
age one part. 
142 
386 
42 
... 
$4.70 
3 
IX. 
Barley ; beets at 
pleasure . 
94 
475 
... 
478 
$5.95 
8 
X. 
Corn ; beets at 
pleasure . 
86 
544 
• • 
. . . 
498 
$6.69 
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* Note—Prices of feeds figured as follows: 
Grain, one cent per pound, except wheat 1 y 2 cent and peas 2 cents. 
Tankage, at $40.00 per ton. 
Beets, at $5.00 per ton. 
Alfalfa, at $5.00 per ton. 
POUNDS FEED FOR ONE HUNDRED POUNDS GAIN. 
The number of pounds of feed required to produce one hun¬ 
dred pounds of gain in live weight is the point of chief interest to 
the feeder, and it is probably the best comparative method of 
stating our results from the experiment. So we depend upon this 
column chiefly for our conclusions. 
SUGAR BEETS WITH GRAIN. 
Lots IX and X were fed sugar beets with barley and with corn 
respectively. It will be noticed that each of these lots consumed 
about as much grain for each one hundred pounds of gain as did the 
lots fed grain alone, and in addition they consumed about as much 
beets as grain, making the ration very expensive. Practically no re¬ 
turns were secured from the beets. It is true that these lots ate about 
one-fifth less grain during the entire period of feeding than the 
lots not fed beets; but they also gained very much less in live weight 
as the foregoing Table “A” shows. They gained only 94 and 86 
pounds per head in thirteen weeks, whereas the other lots gained 
107 to 142 pounds per head in the same length of time. 
And it must be remembered that the beets were not forced 
