. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 24 BULLETIN 628, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. it was that the pasture probably was better than that provided for the others. Division " b " of Lot 1, the cake-finished cattle, in 127 days made a total gain of 344 pounds, or an average daily gain of pounds. Lot 2, division " a," containing the grass steers, made a total gain of 368 pounds per steer, or an average daily gain of pounds. Lot 2. division " b," containing the grass and cake fed steers, made a total gain per steer
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 24 BULLETIN 628, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. it was that the pasture probably was better than that provided for the others. Division " b " of Lot 1, the cake-finished cattle, in 127 days made a total gain of 344 pounds, or an average daily gain of pounds. Lot 2, division " a," containing the grass steers, made a total gain of 368 pounds per steer, or an average daily gain of pounds. Lot 2. division " b," containing the grass and cake fed steers, made a total gain per steer of 401 pounds, or an aver- age daily gain of pounds. Lot 3, Fig. 5.âCattle at beginning of summer fattening on pasture Containing the and cottonseed cake, 1914. graSS-fed Steers, made a total gain of 367 pounds per steer, or an average daily gain of poimds. Lot 4, containing the winter-grazed steers, made, on grass alone during the summer, a total gain of 345 pounds per steer, or an average daily gain of pounds. These steers, as in previous Rlk^^, Wt W i ⢠WtU !- â *^m J iw T**'& 4;. Fig. 6.âThe same steers (shown in fig. 5) when finished in August, 1914. years, made larger gains from fall to fall than any of the other cattle. However, all the steers in the four lots made good gains during the summer. The third section gives the total and daily gains on the 1916 work. This was an unusually good year from the standpoint of the gains. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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