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BULLETIN 97. 
TABLE III. 
AVERAGE AMOUNT IN POUNDS OF FEED CONSUMED AND GAINS 
MADE BY EACH STEER DAILY IN THE DIFFERENT 
LOTS IN FIVE WEEK PERIODS. 
FIVE WEEK 
Average amount of feed consumed. 
AVERAGE 
GAIN 
.PERIOD 
Lot 
1 . 
Lot II. 
Lot III, 
Lot I 
Lot II. 
Lot III 
Oats 
Pulp 
Hay 
and 
Barley 
Pulp 
Hay. 
Corn 
Pulp 
Hay 
First . 
F7.8 
10.2 
2.6 
157.4 
10.1 
2.6 
158.0 
10.1 
1.73 
1.60 
1.46 
Second. 
108.1 
10.5 
5 0 
li 8.5 
10.7 
5.0 
115.0 
11.3 
2.43 
2.68 
1.41 
Third. 
83.5 
10 9 
7.0 
90.5 
11.1 
7.0 
118.0 
12.4 
1.73 
1.78 
1.61 
Fourth. 
75.5 
10.9 
8.0 
79.2 
10.6 
8 0 
117.6 
13.6 
1.33 
1.97 
1.00 
Fifth. 
54.5 
10.5 
9.6 
r 8 . 8 
13.0 
9.6 
106.4 
15.3 
2.55 
1.97 
2.34 
Average 
for entire 
95.9 
10.6 
6.44 
98.9 
11.1 
6.14 
123.0 
1 
1.9 
2.0 
1.57 
period 
TABLE IV. 
GIVING AVERAGE AMOUNT IN POUNDS OF FEED REQUIRED BY THE 
STEERS IN EACH LOT FOR ONE POUND OF LIVE WEIGHT GAIN. 
Pulp 
Hay 
Barley-Oats 
Corn 
Lot I 
50.59 
5.59 
3.39 
Lot II 
49.46 
5.55 
3.22 
Lot III 
78.58 
8.01 
In table IV, which shows the average amount of feed re¬ 
quired by the steers in each lot for one pound of gain in live 
weight, it will be noticed in the case of Lot III that seventy- 
eight and one-half pounds of pulp and eight pounds of alfalfa hay 
were required to produce one pound of live weight gain on a bunch 
of 50 two-year old steers. In Lot I, three and thirty-nine one 
hundredths pounds of barley and oats fed in the ration of this 
bunch of steers was equivalent to, or took the place of, twenty- 
seven and ninety-nine one-hundredths pounds of pulp and two 
and forty-two one hundredths pounds of hay. The result in Lot 
II was almost the same, except that it required slightly less of 
corn to replace approximately the same amount of pulp and 
hay. 
The whole one hundred and fifty head of steers were disposed 
of to the Western Packing Company of Denver, at a flat price. 
The steers were weighed in the usual manner at the feed yards 
before shipping, and were weighed again at the yards in Denver 
after a short rest with hay and water supplied. In order to obtain 
the difference in the market value of each lot of steers as they ap- 
