A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . ad to be considerably fatter than the other when put other lot was quite as good, but thinner. In the case of thelong feed, it cost $ to make 100 pounds gain, while in the caseof the short feed it cost $ Further, it took more meal perday in the case of the short feed. The gain in the case of the longfeed was pounds per day; in the case of the short feed per day. The short feed lot, being fatter when they started,were harder to induce to put on additional fat. The total cost of 37 feeding these steers was pe
A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . ad to be considerably fatter than the other when put other lot was quite as good, but thinner. In the case of thelong feed, it cost $ to make 100 pounds gain, while in the caseof the short feed it cost $ Further, it took more meal perday in the case of the short feed. The gain in the case of the longfeed was pounds per day; in the case of the short feed per day. The short feed lot, being fatter when they started,were harder to induce to put on additional fat. The total cost of 37 feeding these steers was per steer in the case of the shortkeep and $ Per steer in the case of the long keep, which wen-fed a good deal longer time. The selling price was $ per 100pounds for the long keep and $ per 100 pounds for the shortkeep. There was realized $ profit on the short keep and $ the long keep steers. In Manitoba and Alberta, experiments wrere made to determinethe relative cost of fattening cattle in comfortable stables and in the. -^HHU Section of main dairy barn showing mangers and water cups. open air with only bush shelter. In Manitoba, in one test, it wasfound in the case of well-grown steers, three years and over, in fairflesh in the fall, that cheaper gains were made by the cattle fedout-of-doors. Younger cattle and those in lean condition are moreprofitably fed within the shelter of a barn. In Alberta, the three-year-old cattle in fair condition fed out-of-doors made much moreprofit than those wintered in a comfortable barn. Most of the feeding experiments already referred to were withcattle purchased as feeders. For a number of years tests were madeto ascertain the most profitable method of feeding from birth to thefinished condition. Steers have been finished within periods rangingfrom 13 to 14 months, and in almost every case, the greatest profitwas obtained with those finished in the shorter period. Continuousfattening, when compared writh carrying sto
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