. Beef production . Cattle. 146 BEEF PRODUCTION as to the relative selling qualities of eattle kept clean and those feci in muddy lots. In the six months extending from Nov. 28, 1903, to June 1, 1904, the Experiment Station referred to fed a carload of choice 2-year-old steers on a paved lot and another carload of the same grade of steers in an ordinary mud lot. Of course both lots were fed the same ration, and all conditions, save the matter of the surface of the feed lot, were the same. When marketed in Chicago the steers fed in the mud. Fig. 15. Bunk in which to feed grain to cattle, with p
. Beef production . Cattle. 146 BEEF PRODUCTION as to the relative selling qualities of eattle kept clean and those feci in muddy lots. In the six months extending from Nov. 28, 1903, to June 1, 1904, the Experiment Station referred to fed a carload of choice 2-year-old steers on a paved lot and another carload of the same grade of steers in an ordinary mud lot. Of course both lots were fed the same ration, and all conditions, save the matter of the surface of the feed lot, were the same. When marketed in Chicago the steers fed in the mud. Fig. 15. Bunk in which to feed grain to cattle, with platform approach. In use by J. li. Fulkerson, Jerseyville, 111. lot sold for 10 cents per hundredweight less than those having access to the paved lot. This was due to their dirty appearance and not to any inferiority of finish which they possessed, for strange as it may seem, the paved lot did not seem to make it possible to make larger or cheaper gains, considering the steers by themselves. The pigs following the steers having access to the paved lot, however, made nearly one pound more of pork per bushel of corn fed the steers than did those following the steers fed in the ordinary mud lot. In other words, while the pork produced by the pigs following the "mud lot steers" paid for only per cent of the total feec1 fed to steers, the pigs following the "paved lot steers'' paid for per 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 Mumford, Herbert Windsor, 1871-. Urbana, Ill. : Herbert W. Mumford
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