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—, for each sixty pounds of the mixture eaten. The amount
realized in this instance was $1.41 for each sixty pounds
eaten, while the cost of the same was 91 cents. Even
figuring pork at $7.00 per hundredweight, the following
amounts per bushel of wheat fed would have been realized
in the respective lots mentioned: 98 cents, $1.12, $1.09, $1.16.
· Four lots of two—year—old steers were fed during the year
to throw some light on the economy and rapidity of gains on
a ration composed of broken—ear corn, cottonseed meal,
cottonseed hulls, and a limited amount of clover hay, as com-
pared with a ration of the same feeds with the exception of
silage. Two lots were finished in the dry lot and two on
pasture. ln the dry lot test, the cost of a hundred pounds
of gain made by the lot of cattle receiving silage was $1.66
less than the cost of a hundred pounds of gain made by the
cattle which did not receive silage in the ration. Both of
these lots were given a full feed. The following prices of
feeds were used: Ear corn, 75 cents per bushel; cottonseed
meal, $31.20 per ton; corn silage, $3.00 per ton; cottonseed
hulls, $9.35 per ton; clover hay, $16.00 per ton. The two
other lots of steers were given a three—fourths’ full feed of
the rations mentioned above during the winter and early
spring, and they were finished on grass without grain to
determine the functional ability of cattle to graze after
having had silage the previous winter, as compared with
steers receiving dry feeds, i.e., the same feeds with the ex-
ception of silage. The lot which received silage during the
winter did not make as large gains on pasture as the lot
receiving the same feeds with the exception of silage during
the winter, the difference being 23 pounds per steer. The
steers were on pasture from May 14th to July 16th. On the
basis of the prices of feedstuffs as given above, and pasture
at $2.50 per steer per month, and crediting the pork produced
by the hogs following the steers during the winter months,
the lot of steers which received silage during the winter
netted a profit of $5.38 per steer, while the non—silage fed
lot made a profit of $1.31 per steer. As far as could be
determined, there was no difference in the finish of the steers