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Show shelter when not results are considered. The author, however, shows ly meteoro logical reeords.that it was an unusually warm nd dry winter, and states that the cattle bad wind-breaks on nil sides of the yard in which they were fed. Also that trials for the winter just closed, which was more severe, is not so favorable for the yarded cattle. The trials are to be continued under new conditions. Kor the present it is not shown that in the dry climate of Utah tieing cattle ;p Is proQtable, although al-though it is not improbable that a form of shelter permitting exercise will prove financially successful. The trials involved the use of blankets. blank-ets. It was reasoned that blankets prevent pre-vent radiation of heat, and therefore I the use ol food to some extent. Roth for horses and cattlejthey proved to be irritating and unprofitable in me, in fact entirely detrimental. ' v,'hen used for horses they were kept on night and day, being worn under the harness. These trials will take a new direction in the future. Although they represented a large amount of work, and it is believed will soon reach definite and valuable conclusions. EXPERIMENTS. Bulletin Xo. 11 of the Utah experiment experi-ment station is a summary of former trials and a report of a recent experiment experi-ment made by Director Sanborn to determine de-termine the influences of shelter on tbe amount of food consumed, and tho rate of growth uade by horses and cattle! when sheltered and when unsheltered. Former trials extending over fnnr vears showed that sheltered cattle ate more food for a pmnd of growth than those that were uisheltered. Sections if the barn made warmer thau other lections gave a gain more than cotnjreisatiug for the extra cost involved. Cattle fed in the open yard eat more foul for a pound of growth than those unsheltered and enough more to 'pay the cost, but this extra food was that v!ieh the cattlej in the barn would reject Exerciseor influence of the open air is ben a distributing factor in a trial seekng to ascertain the direct influence o. ccld and food assimilated. During tie oast winter these factors j have been iivestigated in conjunction with a trialto determine by the direct method the nfhience of sheltered versus unsheltered -attle. The "result showed that cattle vten sheltered but allowed the freedom of lo-.se stalls ate more than cattle heltered but tied np. So that a part C the extra lood eaten by cattle when ed in the open air is due to exercise nther than to the influence of low tempratnre. Those in the open air ate mor than those iu the loose bo. stalls, thereiy showing that cold adds to food con-imption. This extra food thus eaten 'as in part that which cbu-! fined stock 'ould not eat, so that iu a pra 'tical see U should not be Charged up to the sters fed in the open air as. so much extract or at Its full value. While it hs been shown in previous trials that e nosed cattle ate more food for a pouud f gain in other states where there is liion rain and snow fall and a j damper ati osphere, the trial last I winter failei to show any gain due to |
