. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 310 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED or unhusked ear corn, or shelled corn, but few using corn meal or corn-and-cob meal thruout the fattening period. To induce young animals to eat sufficient corn to overcome their tendency to grow rather than to fatten, more preparation is warranted than for older animals. Many skilled feeders seek to "keep the feed better than the cattle," , prepare
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 310 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED or unhusked ear corn, or shelled corn, but few using corn meal or corn-and-cob meal thruout the fattening period. To induce young animals to eat sufficient corn to overcome their tendency to grow rather than to fatten, more preparation is warranted than for older animals. Many skilled feeders seek to "keep the feed better than the cattle," , prepare the feed more as the cattle gain in flesh. Thus, they may start the steers on shock corn, then as they require more concentrates, add snapped corn or ear corn; still later the ear corn is broken or shelled; and toward the close of the fattening period, to tempt them to consume a heavier allowance of grain, corn meal or. Fig. 86.—Fattening Steers Bating Shock Corn Feeding shock corn is an economical practice, especially during the first of the fattening period. Later, more preparation of the corn may be profitable. (From Successful Farming.) corn-and-cob meal is employed. Silage from well-matured corn is the most palatable form in which the entire corn plant can be offered to the steer. In addition to the grain in this succulent feed, some corn should be fed, usually in the form of shelled corn or ear corn. Since corn long stored in the crib becomes dry and hard, for sum- mer feeding the grain should be soaked or shelled, or possibly ground. Other cereals.—In sections of the West where corn does not thrive barley is of much importance for fattening cattle. This grain is equal to or but slightly lower than corn in value. Wheat is seldom fed to cattle except when off grade or unusually low in price. As wheat is less palatable than corn, steers may not. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - c
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