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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



FF.F.D CONSUMED. 



To economize space, the records of the feed consumed is given below in tables which 

 hardly need explanation. The steers were weighed each two weeks, and the amount of 

 feed consumed in these intervals is given in the tables. 



The steers were allowed all the rough forage they would eat clean. The amount of 

 Ihe grain feed, corn and sugar beet seed ground together, was so regulated as to allow 

 daily the same quantity to every steer in each lot. Naturally the steers receiving pulp 

 ate less hay and corn stover per animal than did the lot receiving none of the succulent 

 fodder. , 



Feed consumed in periods of ttco weeJit 



Comparison of results. — Feed per 100 pounds gain. 



A comparison of the amount of feed required to produce a hundred pounds of gain 

 indicates that 3,885 pounds of pulp was equal in feeding value to 881.3 pounds of stover, 

 1,086.7 pounds of hay, and 186.G pounds of grain. This statement is not fully justified 

 by the experiment, however, since the effect of the removal of the pulp was not complete 

 with Lot II until December 24, if it was then. With thi9 lot there was a continual 

 shrinkage until that time. It is impossible to estimate the allowance that should be 

 made for this factor. Considering the test to begin January 7, when surely the influence 

 of the change from succulent to dry feed would have largely spent itself, we have the 

 gains with the pulp fed steers up to March 11, 2,815 pounds, or 93.8 pounds per steer, 

 while without pulp the twenty steers gained 1,120 pounds, or 56 pounds per 9teer. The 

 comparison of the feed per hundred pounds of gain would ihen bo as follows: 



