Feed and Management of Fattening Cattle. 



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near the latter hour as possible, since they always look better just 

 after they have been fed and watered." 



Funkhouser 1 advises feeding all the hay the cattle will eat, 

 and reducing the grain fed at least one-half two or three days be- 

 fore shipping. For steers in transit allow 250 pounds of hay and 

 one and one-half bushels of grain per car. Steers on pasture that 

 have had corn should be taken off pasture twenty-four hours be- 

 fore shipping, and allowed half a feed of corn with plenty of hay. 



II. Rations for Fattening Steers. 



607. Theoretical rations for fattening steers. To show the 

 amount of feed a steer should receive according to the Wolff- Leh- 

 mann standard, two rations are presented which are reasonably 

 close to the requirements. In the first, corn is the leading con- 

 centrate, with oil meal additional to furnish the protein; in the 

 second, silage furnishes the roughage, with bran, corn and cob 

 meal and cotton- seed meal for the concentrates. See Chapter 

 VII, Part II. 



Rations compounded in accordance with the Wolff-Lehmann feeding 

 standard for steers weighing 1,000 pounds, first period. 



1 Breeder's Gazette, Chicago, Jan. 18, 1893. 



