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result would be attended by an immense increase in 

 the net returns from the corn crop. The annual stover 

 crop would then .represent a valuation to the farmers 

 of something- more than a quarter of a billion dollars. 

 No farmer would willfully permit the waste of his tim- 



FATTENING STEERS 



Comparison of timothy with equal parts stover and clover hay 

 for steers on full feed. 



1899, two-year-old steers, 119 days, four steers in each lot, full 

 feed of shelled corn. 



Corn eaten, bushels 



Roughness eaten, lbs 



Total gain, lbs 



Average daily gain, lbs 



Grain per 11> ,r ain, lbs 



Gain per bushel of corn 



a Clover hay. b Corn stover, 



Corn and 

 timothy hay 



166 

 3,813 



802 

 1.69 

 11.51 

 4.87 



Corn, clover 

 hay and 

 corn stover 



185 

 «1,626 

 £1,889 

 917 

 1.94 

 11.29 

 496 



1900, two-year-old steers, 105 days, four steers in each lot, full 



feed of corn. 



Corn eaten, bushels 



Roughness eaten, lbs 



Total gain, lbs 



Average daily gain, lbs .. 



(Train per lb train, lbs 



Gain per bushel of corn 



a Clover hav. b Corn stover, 



Corn and 

 timothy hay 



157 

 2,540 



789 

 1.97 

 11.19 

 5.00 



Corn, clover 

 hay and 

 corn stover 



176 



a2,475 



b 868 



1,140 



2.85 

 8.30 

 6.74 



othy crop after it had been grown and required only 

 to be harvested to be available as a feed. There is in 

 the light of the results of the foregoing experiments 

 quite as little justification for the waste of his stover. 



