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depend entirely upon the relative price of corn and 

 the nitrogenous feeds in question. Experiments, 

 indicating the value of supplemental feeds with corn 

 have been carried out at the Iowa and Nebraska 

 Experiment Stations and elsewhere. 



A study of cattle farms in Illinois showed that 

 in feeding steers in the winter about twenty-five per 

 cent, of the farmers used shocked corn, thirty-nine 

 per cent, ear corn, ten per cent, shelled corn, three 

 per cent, corn and cob meal. In summer feeding 

 about three per cent, used shocked corn, fifty per 

 cent, ear corn, thirty-six per cent, shelled corn 

 and five per cent, corn meal. A most careful 

 study of the methods of feeding corn has been 

 carried out at the Illinois Experiment Station. 

 It appears from these tests that the value of steers 

 per hundredweight may vary as much as fifty cents, 

 depending on the method under which they were 

 fattened, arid that this amount is often sufficient 

 to make a difference between actual profit and 

 loss to the feeder. According to these experi- 

 ments corn and cob meal does not appear to 

 be so valuable for fattening steers as corn meal. 

 Ear corn, however, is much more efficient for the 

 production of beef than is shelled corn, and exper- 

 iments along this line show this point so conclu- 

 sively that we must decide against the grinding or 

 shelling of corn for feeding steers, at least during 

 the winter season. It obviously does not pay to 

 grind corn during the winter, but during the sum- 

 mer, while the steers are on grass, the conditions 

 may be somewhat different. 



As already indicated corn is so necessary from 

 a financial standpoint in fattening steers that a 

 center of corn production is practically synony- 

 mous with one of beef production. In general, 



