SUPPLEMENTAL TEST— FEEDING 9 STEERS FOR 40 DAYS 



Nine of the 13 steers remaining from the first test were continued 

 in two lots until May 4. Lot I had four steers and Lot II five. The 

 animals remained in the same lots as previously and all were given 

 2.56 pounds of cottonseed meal per head daily and all the alfalfa hay 

 and silage they would eat. The steers in Lot I were high-grade 

 Holsteins and those in Lot II were sired by a Polled Shorthorn bull. 

 Those in Lot I were much thinner than the steers in Lot II and had 

 been fed previously on alfalfa hay, while those in Lot II received 

 alfalfa hay and silage. The first three days the steers in Lot I were 

 fed alfalfa hay, and those in the other lot alfalfa hay and silage. 

 After this a mixed ration was given.. The weight of each steer was 

 taken weekly and a careful record kept of the amount of feed con- 

 sumed. The objects of this test were to learn if the high-grade 

 Holsteins would make as rapid gains as the other steers, to study the 

 effect of previous rations on the rate of gains, and to learn the amount 

 of roughages these animals would consume when given a small amount 

 of cotton-seed meal. 



After being on feed for forty days the animals were sold. At 

 the end of this time they were as fat as the steers sold March 25. 

 Table XVII gives a brief summary of this second test. 



TABLE XVII.— SUMMARY OF TEST WITH 9 STEERS FOR 40 DAYS 



Lot I 



Lot II 



Number steers in lot 



Ration 



Alfalfa hay, 



silage 



cottonseed meal 



Alfalfa hay, 



silage 



cottonseed meal 



Average initial weight 



Average final weight 



Average gain 



Average daily gain 



Average daily ration: 



Alfalfa hay 



Silage 



Cottonseed meal 



Feed required per pound gain 



Alfalfa hay. 



Silage 



Cottonseed meal 



Cost of 100 pounds gain 



Pounds 



1030 



1181 



151 



3.78 



Pounds 

 1070 

 1185 



115 

 2.88 



10.67 



48.58 



2.56 



4.93 



54.23 



2.56 



2.82 

 12.85 

 0.68 



$11.39 



1.71 

 18.83 

 0.89 



$13.23 



