. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO. 27 silage they can eat, and one pound of cottonseed meal or oil meal daily, should gain about one and one-half pounds daily. Under such conditions they should probably eat about thirty pounds of silage, a little more or a little less, depending upon the proportion of corn and water in the silage. Yearlings or two-year-old steers roughed through the winter on silage will eat thirty to forty pounds daily. Beef cows will eat forty to fifty pounds. In additi
. Concrete silos; a booklet of practical information for the farmer and the rural contractor. Concrete; Silage. UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO. 27 silage they can eat, and one pound of cottonseed meal or oil meal daily, should gain about one and one-half pounds daily. Under such conditions they should probably eat about thirty pounds of silage, a little more or a little less, depending upon the proportion of corn and water in the silage. Yearlings or two-year-old steers roughed through the winter on silage will eat thirty to forty pounds daily. Beef cows will eat forty to fifty pounds. In addition to the silage, it is wise to allow them some dry roughage, such as oat, straw, cane hay, or corn stover. It would be wise to feed them two or three pounds daily per 1,000 pounds live weight of cottonseed meal or oil meal. On a ration of corn silage, oat straw, and cottonseed meal or oil meal, yearlings, two-year-olds, or three-year-olds should make daily gains of about one and three-fourths pounds. Much depends, however, upon how thin the steers are when they are put on winter ; —Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa. In Henry County, Illinois, some of the largest feeders in the Corn Belt are also going to raise some stock, expecting to change their methods. Regarding this, "Orange-Judd Farmer" of Chicago says: "Clyde Ford believes they must ultimately come to use a silo, particu- larly if they get to handling young steers or raising their own ; On the Hulting farm, Ed. Hulting, the manager, said: "Under the new system of raising baby beef, I believe that silage and alfalfa will be the chief bulky part of the ration with a little grain to keep the calves always in first-class condition. They will be kept fat all the time and at the end of the year will be topped off with a short grain feed, in excellent market condition, weighing about 1,000 to 1,100 ; Beef Feeders Must Build Silos. Excellent Concrete Block Silo in the hear
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