EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



Feed per 100 lbs. gain. — Jan. 7 to Mar. 11. 



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The value of a tou of pulp in each case, expressed in terms of the other feeding 

 stuffs, -would be as follows: 



Value of one ton of pulp. 



These tables take into consideration the value of the pulp as shown by the increased 

 gains of the steers receiving pulp over those which had none. Again it must be remem- 

 bered that it was the intention to furnish a ration but little better than a maintenance 

 ration. The gains were to be regarded as incidental. To carry a steer through thirteen 

 weeks of winter, without attempting to make the gains made in the interval pay for 

 the feeds, but to keep the animal thrifty and growing, it required per steer, 5,024.8 

 pounds of pulp, with 775.7 pounds of mixed hay, 356 "pounds of shredded stover, and 

 224 pounds of grain. Without the pulp it required, per animal, 275 pounds more hay, 

 and 364 pounds more stover. Taking these ngures as a basis and remembering that 

 each steer fed pulp gained 07 pounds more in weight in the 13 weeks, it is possible to 

 estimate the value of the pulp as a factor in a ration designed to carry steers through 

 the winter cheaply, if that form of cattle feeding is ever desired. 



The values indicated for the pulp will strike the reader as unduly high. Let it be 

 remembered that they are derived from a single experiment and are not reported here 

 "as final but are subject to such correction as future experiments may show to be 

 necessary. 



FEEDING EXPERIMENT WITH STEERS ON THE FARM OF HON. A. M. TODD, 



PEARL, MICH. 



CONDUCTED BY WALTER C. BOURNS. 



The steers had been picked up in the surrounding country and were of all sizes and 

 ages, and represented many breeds and combinations of breeds, making the sorting into 

 lots of equal feeding capacity a difficult problem. 



The barns consisted of one large, central hexagon, of fifty-foot sides, from which, on 

 the six sides, project wings fifty by sixty-six feet. In one of these wings the test was 

 carried forward, the steers fastened in two rows, facing each other, with a four-foot 

 alley between them. The steers were fastened by a chain tie sliding on a vertical bar. 

 They were bedded with mint straw. Water was given in pails in the manger, once per 

 day. While no weights of the water were made, it waa not noted that the steers consum- 

 ing pulp took less water than the other lot. 



