. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . Grade Angus steers used in the Nebraska Experiment. Corn and oil meal on grass. GRAIN ON PASTURE. l6q of gain on corn alone cost 13 per cent more thanon corn and oil meal. In this experiment, if the oilmeal had cost $44 per ton, instead of $25, nothingwould have been saved by feeding it. The results, though from but a single experimentand therefore not fully authoritative, indicate thatcorn and mixed grass of this kind do not supplysufficient protein. Those fed oil meal were muchless troubled with scours, which may partially ac-count
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . Grade Angus steers used in the Nebraska Experiment. Corn and oil meal on grass. GRAIN ON PASTURE. l6q of gain on corn alone cost 13 per cent more thanon corn and oil meal. In this experiment, if the oilmeal had cost $44 per ton, instead of $25, nothingwould have been saved by feeding it. The results, though from but a single experimentand therefore not fully authoritative, indicate thatcorn and mixed grass of this kind do not supplysufficient protein. Those fed oil meal were muchless troubled with scours, which may partially ac-count for ihe difference in favor of the oil meal meal or gluten meal could be substi-tuted lor the oil lueal, or bran might answer thepurpose, though fully twice as much, amountingto 20 per cent of the grain ration, would be pigs running behind the cattle, dry shelled cornmay be ust-d. Oil meal in nut form, the pieces be-ing about the size of kernels of corn, mixes verywell witli shelled corn, and blows out of open feed-ing b
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