238 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



"6. The average number of pounds of meat made per acre from a 

 system of silage feeding where oats and hay were used as supplementary 

 feeds was 385.35, where shock corn with oats and hay were fed 337.91 

 pounds — a difference of 47.45 pounds per acre in favor of a system o* 

 silage feeding. 



"7. So far as the cost of harvesting and feeding crops for the produc- 

 tion of beef is concerned, in the net profits of the enterprise, it should 

 be borne in mind that it will probably require nearly twice as great an 

 expenditure of labor and capital in a system of silage feeding as im a 

 system of shock corn feeding. 



"8. The silage-fed steers were much better in thrift and iiesh at tke 

 end of the experiment than were the shock corn-fed steers. 



"9. In case of the silage-fed steers 97.69 per cent of the meat pro- 

 duced was beef and 2.31 per cent pork. In case of the shock corn-fed 

 steers 84.22 per cent of the meat produced was beef and 15.78 per ceat 

 was pork. This clearly shows that pork production is an important fac- 

 tor in a system of feeding shock corn for beef production, while it may 

 be entirely eliminated from a system of silage feeding for beef produc- 

 tion practically without loss. 



"It should be noted that the silage-fed lot consumed less feed than 

 the shock corn lot and less feed per pound of gain whether beef alone is 

 considered or beef and pork combined. The amount of dry matter 

 required to produce a pound of gain of meat where the corn was fed m 

 the form of silage was 6.52 pounds; where fed in the form of shock cor» 

 it was 8.57 pounds. 



"11. With an average daily ration to each steer in lot 1 of twenty-six 

 pounds silage, two pounds oats and 4.55 pounds of mixed hay, an average 

 daily gain of 1.68 pounds was secured for a period of eighty-eight days. 

 With an average daily ration to each steer in lot 2 of 13.22 pounds of 

 shock corn, two pounds oats and four pounds mixed hay an average daily 

 gain of 1.42 pounds was secured for a period of eighty-eight days. 



"12. Under conditions comparable with those prevailing in this ex- 

 periment one steer would be able to make an average daily gain of 1.88 

 pounds for a period of six months on .82 of an acre of silage, oats and 

 hay, of which .31 of an acre would be devoted to corn for silage, .2 J of 

 an acre to oats and .28 of an acre to hay. One steer receiving shock com, 

 oats and hay would be able to make an average daily gain of 1.42 pouadn 

 for a period of six months on .92 of an acre, of which .45 of an act?? 

 would be devoted to growing the corn, .23 of an acre to oats and .24 of mm 

 acre to hay, making a difference of .26 of a pound of meat per day per 

 steer and one-tenth of an acre of land for the season both being ia favor 

 of the steers receiving their own corn in the form of silage for the s»eri««l 

 indicated " 



