Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886 [PAGE 226]

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218' The next table gives weights and gains of three steers in 1885. The first two were grain fed, the last on grass alone until August "2,0. The first steer had made fine growth as a yearling, when he had been made very fat. His unsatisfactory gain as a two-year-old is shown:

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The next table gives the weights and gains of another lot of cattle representing different breeds and showing better average results. It will be remembered these figures are all given as showing the results secured, not as indicating that they are considered remarkable : Weights and Gains of Two-year-olds, Grain Fed.

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Variations of weight, from causes not fully under control of the feeder, may be so great as to make comparisons from weighings at short intervals of little or no value. The quantity of food, but more •especially of water in the stomach of a full grown steer or cow, may cause variation of weight of fully 100 pounds. Keeping animals from food and water before weighing will best remove this source of variation, but unless the fasting be carried out for such time as to <cause discomfort to animals and irregularity in feeding, it will not entirely do this. We have practiced weighing without fasting, making all weighings at as nearly same time of day as is practicable.