670 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



milk fed to average calves until they were 7 weeks old 3ielded more 

 satisfactory^ returns than if it had been manufactured into butter and 

 sold at the average market price for creamer}^ butter. There w^as little 

 diflference in the amount of milk required to produce a pound of gain 

 from the tirst to the seventh week of feeding, the average being 9.8 

 lbs. of milk testing 4.2 per cent fat." 



Corn, Kafir corn, and alfalfa as beef producers, F. C. Burtis 

 {OMaJtoiiKi Std. lipt. 1900^ pj), SJf-S9). — Using -4 lots of 5 steers each, 

 averaging about 976 lbs. in weight the feeding value of Kafir corn meal 

 and corn-meal feed with alfalfa hay and with corn stover was tested. 

 In 112 days the average daih" gains of the steers on the different rations 

 were as follows: Kafir corn meal and alfalfa, 2.31 lbs.; corn meal and 

 alfalfa, 2.51 lbs.; Kafir corn meal and Kafir corn stover, 2.33 lbs.; and 

 corn meal and Kafir corn stover, 2.01 lbs. The grain eaten per pound 

 of gain by the 4 lots was 7.35, 7, 10.58, and 9.3 lbs., respectively. 

 The corresponding cost per pound of gain was 5.21, 1.92, 5.56, and 5.18 

 cts. The coarse fodder eaten with a bushel of grain varied from 0.13 lb. 

 in the case of Kafir corn meal and corn stover to 0.56 lb. in case of 

 Kafir corn meal and alfalfa. 



Cotton seed and cotton -seed meal were substituted for the coarse 

 fodder and the feeding continued for 35 days, the average daily gains 

 of the 1 lots being 2.6, 3.2, 2.15, and 2.99 lbs., respectively. The grain 

 eaten per pound of gain was 8.02, 6.51, 8.73, and 7.01 lbs., respectively, 

 while the corresponding cost per pound of gain was 5.9, 1.8, 6.31, and 

 5.08 cts. 



The steers were shipped and slaughtered. When dressed, the car- 

 casses weighed from 59.21 to 61.71 per cent of the weight before 

 slaughtering. The total profit on the steers was $152.18. Four pigs 

 ran after each lot of steers, but the results obtained are not reported. 



In the author's opinion the test emphasizes the value of alfalfa hay, 

 and should encourage Oklahoma farmers to raise more of this crop. 



Cattle feeding, H. T. French {Idaho Sta. Bui. ^^ pp. i^).— The 

 possibility of profitably fattening steers under local conditions was 

 tested with 3 lots of 1 animals each. The steers were kept in stalls and 

 spent a portion of each day in small 3^ards. The test began January 1 

 and covered 3 months. The first month the average daily ration fed 

 all the steers consisted of 30 lbs. of silage, 10 lbs. of grain (chopped 

 wheat and bran, 4.6), and 5 lbs. chopped oat hay. During the second 

 month, 20 lbs. of mangel-wurzels were substituted for the silage fed lot 

 1, the grain and oat hay being also somewhat modified. Lots 2 and 3 

 were fed much the same ration as during the first month. During the 

 third month of the trial the rations fed all the lots were much the .same 

 as during the second, except that 10 lbs. of roots per steer was added to 

 the rations of lots 2 and 3, the silage being decreased an equal amount. 

 Each lot weighed somewhat over 3,100 lbs. at the beginning of the trial. 



