. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. 360 CORN ration. Smith* had this to say in regard to supplemental feeds with corn for cattle on grass: "During a summer period of 30 weeks five two-year-old Angus steers were fed an average of pounds of shelled corn each per day, making an average daily gain of pounds. Another lot of five steers of the same kind were each fed pounds of grain per day, consisting of 90 per cent shelled corn and 10 per cent of
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. 360 CORN ration. Smith* had this to say in regard to supplemental feeds with corn for cattle on grass: "During a summer period of 30 weeks five two-year-old Angus steers were fed an average of pounds of shelled corn each per day, making an average daily gain of pounds. Another lot of five steers of the same kind were each fed pounds of grain per day, consisting of 90 per cent shelled corn and 10 per cent of oil meal. These steers made an average gain of pounds per day during the same time. The pasture was alike in both lots. Those fed corn and oil meal required but pounds of grain for one pound of increase in weight, while those fed corn alone re- quired pounds. With pasture worth $3 per acre, corn worth at that time 33 cents per bushel, and oil meal $25 per ton, each 100 pounds of gain on corn alone cost 13 per cent more than on corn and oil meal. In this experiment, if the oil meal had cost $44 per ton, instead of $25, nothing would have been saved by feeding ;. CATTLE IN AN IOWA PEED LOT A Steer requires something hke 6 pounds of digestible carbonaceous food to I of protein. Here again, corn alone or corn and corn fod- der or timothy hay, are entirely too low in protein. One-third of the value of the digestible constituents is lost from lack of balancing with some concentrate high in protein or some roughage similarly consti- tuted. At Nebraska alfalfa and corn gave 14 per cent larger gains than prairie hay and corn, and 10 per cent more than prairie hay, corn, and oil meal.** In tests at the Iowa Station corn and wheat straw produced gains for $ per 100 pounds; corn and grass for ^Profitable Stock Feeding by H, R. Smith. Page 167. **Iowa Bulletin No. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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