Feeding dairy calves in California . Fig 8.—Calves in Trial V, Lot II, at close of experiment. 40 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION In this, as in the other trials reported in the preceding pages, noallowance was made for waste in feeding the hay in racks in the calfpens. This waste was apparently of greater importance in the* caseof the older calves on this trial than in the earlier ones. Under the con-ditions stated the amounts of hay given and the composition of therations fed are mainly of value for comparison of the results obtainedwith the two lots; the figures given cannot be
Feeding dairy calves in California . Fig 8.—Calves in Trial V, Lot II, at close of experiment. 40 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION In this, as in the other trials reported in the preceding pages, noallowance was made for waste in feeding the hay in racks in the calfpens. This waste was apparently of greater importance in the* caseof the older calves on this trial than in the earlier ones. Under the con-ditions stated the amounts of hay given and the composition of therations fed are mainly of value for comparison of the results obtainedwith the two lots; the figures given cannot be taken to represent theexact amounts of hay or of digestible components in the rations actu-ally eaten by the calves. The calves included in the trial gained, on the average, as followsin body weight: Lot I (dried beet pulp and barley) pounds per TCiAL jy: - fS - V ? te 1^ -:k\ ^ a -i- V o. - , ft + ^ 1 ^•,/-pA3j:: h ft^p-^-- A\ / \ / . / / \\ / / ^, // \/- s- i ft ; Fig. 9.—Chart showing weekly gains by calves in Trial
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