. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . maybe overcome. It was recently found at the Ne-braska Experiment Station that steers pastured onmixed grasses, consisting of blue-grass, brome-grass, meadow fescue, prairie grass and a little al-falfa made better gains when fed oil meal with cornthan when fed corn alone. During a summer periodof 30 weeks five two-year-old Angus steers werefed an average of pounds of shelled corn eachper day, making an average daily gain of Another lot of five steers of the samekind were each fed pounds of grain per day,consisting of 90
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . maybe overcome. It was recently found at the Ne-braska Experiment Station that steers pastured onmixed grasses, consisting of blue-grass, brome-grass, meadow fescue, prairie grass and a little al-falfa made better gains when fed oil meal with cornthan when fed corn alone. During a summer periodof 30 weeks five two-year-old Angus steers werefed an average of pounds of shelled corn eachper day, making an average daily gain of Another lot of five steers of the samekind were each fed pounds of grain per day,consisting of 90 per cent shelled corn and 10 percent oil meal. These steers made an average gainof pounds per day during the same time. Thepasture was alike in both lots. Those fed corn andoil meal required but pounds of grain for onepound of increase in weight, while those fed cornalone required pounds. With pasture worth $3per acre, corn worth at that time 33 cents perbushel, and oil meal $25 per ton, each 100 pounds i68 PROFITABLE STOCK
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