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ill the feed troughs. The amount oi' feed was regulat- 

 ed so that it was consumed in a few liours. At the 

 close of the test the steers were shipped to the St. Louis 

 market. 



Price and Character of Feeds Used 



The prices used in this hulletin arc the prices ac- 

 tually paid for the steers and the feeds. The corn sil- 

 age was made on the farm. The silage corn would 

 have yielded twcnty-fivc bushels of corn per acre. All 

 of the feeds were of good quality. The corn silage 

 was bright. The cottonseed meal was fresh, bright, 

 and of a high grade. The velvet beans were well ma- 

 tured and of good quality. The prices of feeds were 

 as follows : 



Cottonseed meal $38.00 per ton. 



Velvet beans in pod 20.00 per ton. 



Corn Silage 3.00 per ton. 



Method of Feeding and Handling the Steers 



As the pastures began to fail in the fall the steers 

 had the run of the stalk fields. They were in the stalk 

 fields during the month of November. Eighteen daj^s 

 previous to going on the experiment the steers were 

 fed, while in the stalk fields, tw^o pounds of velvet 

 beans and twelve pounds of corn silage per head per 

 daj'. The preliminary feeding was done to accustom 

 them to feeding and handling and to secure a uniform 

 fill. On December 21st, 1916, the steers were weighed, 

 tagged, and divided into the lots for the test. Each 

 steer was weighed thre6 consecutive days and the av- 

 erage of the three w^eights used as the initial weight 

 of the steer in the test. Fourteen days later they were 

 weighed by lots, and on the tw^enty-eighth da}^ indi- 

 vidual weights were taken, this procedure being re- 

 peated until the end of the test. The experiment con- 

 tinued for 119 da^^s. Hence the steers were fed for 

 137 days, including the preliminary period. 



The following table outlines by twenty-eight day 

 periods the amount of feed given each steer daily: 



