DIVISION OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 537 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



In all the figures, labour has not been considered. Each reader must therefore 

 estimate how much the labour would lessen the profits in his own particular case. 

 Against labour, there must be balanced the value of the manure and the smaller cost 

 of marketing cattle, as compared with grain. This will vary under different circum- 

 stances and in different locations. It is the opinion of thq writer that on very many 

 farms these figures need not be reduced at all. But, even after making a liberal 

 allowance for the cost of labour, the prices realized for grain during those five years 

 are very much greater, through feeding it to the steers, than could be obtained in 

 the ordinary way. 



The following conclusions would seem to be justified by the five years' experi- 

 ments : — 



1. Steers may be fattened successfully and profitably outside, in the climate of 

 Manitoba. 



Greater gains at the cost of less feed, can be made where the steers can be 

 stabled. 



3. The increased gains from stabling are probably not sufficient to justify the 

 expenditure necessary for building expensive stables. 



4. The oats and barley grown on western farms could be marketed more pro- 

 fitably by feeding to steers than by selling at the prices usually obtainable. 



STEER-FEEDING EXPERIMENT FOR 1912-13. 



Twenty steers were bought in November, 1912, for a feeding experiment. This 

 year they are all being fed out-of-doors. One lot receives nothing but straw and 

 grain. The other lot receives less grain, but gets chopped alfalfa in its place. The 

 experiment is not finished at the end of the fiscal year, and will have to wait for 

 next year's report. 



BULLETIN. 



A bulletin has been written on ' Experiments in Steer Feeding at Brandon Experi- 

 mental Farm ' ; this bulletin gives a report on the experimental work in steer feeding 

 done on this Farm during the past twenty years, and summarizes and comments on 

 the results. 



It will be available to any person who applies for a copy. 



