DIVISIOX OF AMMAL HC^BAXDEY 313 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



GOKN SILAUK rs. I>KY CORN FODDKR. 



For the season of 1913-14 a very interesting experiment is under way in which 

 corn silage is being tested against dry corn fodder cured in stocks, as a feed for 

 fattening steers. A carload of rather good steers was purchased at 6 cents per pound 

 in Winnipeg in Xoveniber, 1013. Freight, commisbion, and shrinkage in weight 

 brought their cost up to $6.^0 per cwt., when landed in Brandon. They were divided 

 into two lots, and great care was taken to have them divided as equally as possible. 

 Both lots are being fed in large box stalls of the stable. They were dehorned when 

 put in; one steer in lot 2 bled badly, but recovered afterwards. Both lots received 

 the same quantity of meal and the same quantity of straw and, later in the test, the 

 same quantity of alfalfa. The corn silage and fodder were analysed to find the per- 

 centage of moisture in each, and were fed in such ([uantities as to give each lot the 

 same amount of dry matter. The corn fodder was cut up and mixed with straw the 

 same as is done with ensilage, so that both should be fed under identical conditions. 



The experiment is not finished at the end of the fiscal year, and consequently it is 

 impossible to report the results, but the weights of each steer during each month of 

 the test up to the present are available and as they are rather interesting and instruc- 

 tive, are given herewith : — 



Lot I. — Fed Dry Corn Fodder. 



Total gain for 5 months, 2,295 pounds. 



Average gain per steer for 5 months, 229j pounds. 



Average gain per steer per day, 1-5 pounds. 



Brandon. 



