NE col Oe Amadis euler aan K i} 
aa ean aly, 2 it) Pi ; 
q 
ir 
Se oe pie 30 tg : 
eget.) ‘ } x 
N EW Yorr AGricuntuRaAL Experiment Srarron. 
21 
We To still further condense the above results it will be seen that’ 
if we group the five steers, the four heifers of Holstein-Friesian 




| Pounds dry 
1 
food for 
lb. gain 

5.14 
7.80 
6.75 
7.40 
'* and Ayrshires and two Guernsey and American Holderness 
heifers, we find an average as follows: 
i ge PS. 
Babe 
=] oD 
A ene 
q Aon 
el m0 
in] One 
oO Ay 
a AN gaa OE Rte ORC ANTE cee NAA Go AS BL A 1.48 2.04 
EMS AEOLTES FU) e eae Gk chard on Coke kote o Ce BC Lele ainin'cak Vales 1.63 1.69 
REE TEE 0 eh LS ee te ae ee oe aw Wiehe 1.65 2.15 
a SSIES Age: gael et Re il RY SNR RE Ran rad NE A A 1.55, 2.38 
PTMMEMESEL ENE ON CLO LING SG ich also. aes ciee he Vic chowlianiedos Sete bies oleae 1.30 1.88 
6.70 


It is to be remembered that the same, ration in composition and 
quality was furnished the steers, and though a different ration was 
though differing in quantity. 
fed the heifers it was in composition practically the same to each, 
It is interesting to observe also that there is very great fluctua- 
tion in the daily gain in weight of the several breeds alike, as will 
be seen by the following table, where the average daily gain in 
pounds of the several breeds are given for the different months: 


April. | May. | June.| July. | Aug. | Sept. 

Holstein-Friesian...................| 1.78 2.42 1.49 74 1,03 a i 
K 6a) aig se SR ie PIT Atte oils Nee 1.95 “YU 1.06 1.84 
BERR ERIIO VOW pee! e's 5% sis an sioleibare Ue v dees aah rue 1.77 1.02 1.26 1.48 
American Holderness .............. Bea ier Sys Pa 289:5 1) 2208 br 1580 
MO sic Caicln ave'e'v s w's é Dee eh ans as vie alerts a de eye 1.86.) fa 2597 
ee | ff | — | | 
.90 




The effect of the warm weather of summer, annoyance of flies 
and the necessary change in feed later in the season is quite. 
marked in the above. 
EXPERIMENTS IN F'REDING CATTLE. 
_ During five months trial with twelve growing heifer calves, the 
average gain in weight of which was 1.6 pounds daily, the average 
4 
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in weight was 8.4 pounds. 

amount of dry matter consumed by them for each pound increase 
