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more quality at the end of the feeding trial, and in any discrimina- 

 ting market would have brought a considerably higher price than the 

 other animals." 



The average daily gains made by the cattle fed by Soule were as 

 follows : 



Those fed silage 1.46 pounds. 



Those fed timothy hay 1.10 pounds. 



Those fed corn stover 97 pounds. 



For every pound of gain made the silage-fed cattle consumed 7.19 

 pounds of grain, the hay-fed cattle 9.45 pounds, and the stover-fed 

 cattle 10.72 pounds. ''The cost of a pound of gain with the silage- 

 fed cattle was 9.04 cents; with the stover-fed cattle 13.20 cents, and 

 with the hay-fed cattle, 14.27 cents. 



In the opinion of Soule, these results do not overrate the value of 

 silage for beef production. 



Those who contemplate the feeding of beef cattle in as large num- 

 bers as car-load lots cannot afford to be without a silo, for the succu- 

 lence furnished by silage is essential to the best results in winter 

 feeding. With good land near the silo, silage should be put in at a 

 cost of from $1.00 to $1.50 per ton, and Soule, in the experiment 

 referred to above, found that 20.65 pounds of silage was consumed 

 for every pound of gain; 11.15 pounds of stover and 11.24 pounds of 

 hay, and as already stated, more grain was required with the dry 

 feeds for every pound of gain. 



If these figures represent facts, and they probably do not overrate 

 the value of silage, especially when fed with a proper amount of dry 

 roughage, we have in shredded corn stover as shown by our own exper- 

 iments, and in silage, as shown by the experience of others, two very 

 cheap and excellent forms of roughage for the feeding of beef cattle. 

 Either fed alone do not give the best results, but when combined we 

 have all the rough forage necessary for the most successful feeding of 

 beef cattle. 



COTTON-SEED HULLS. 



Money has been made by feeding beef cattle with cotton-seed hulls 

 as roughage, but while a ton of stover can be harvested for $3.00 and 

 a ton of silage put in the silo for $1.50, and one ton of the former or 

 two tons of the latter is superior to a ton of hulls, which cannot be 

 bought for less than $5.00, it is no longer economy to purchase cotton- 

 seed hulls and permit the corn stover to rot in the fields. 



It is probably true that cotton-seed hulls have a value apart from 

 the actual nutrients which they contain, when fed with a highly con- 

 centrated nitrogenous feed like cotton-seed meal. Cattle require 

 coarse, bulky feeds, and it is necessary to mix something loose and 

 bulky with the heavy, compact cotton-seed meal. Hulls serve admira- 



