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Feeds and Feeding. 



into 2 lots of 5 each, giving to the first dry shelled corn and to the 

 second soaked shelled corn, both lots receiving the same roughage. 

 The statements of corn fed are based on the weight of dry shelled 

 corn. Eight shotes, averaging 88 Ibs. each, were placed with each 

 lot of steers. At first they subsisted entirely on corn in the drop- 

 pings, but later they were supplied additional grain. The table 

 shows the result of the trial, which lasted 5 months. 



Soaked and dry corn for steers. 



By the table it is shown that the steers getting soaked shelled corn 

 made larger daily gains and required 15 per ct. less corn for a given 

 gain than those fed dry corn. The pigs following the steers getting 

 the dry corn required 30 Ibs. less additional corn for 100 Ibs. gain. 

 The last column of the table shows that for each 100 Ibs. of combined 

 gain of steers and pigs there was a net saving of 39 Ibs. of corn, or 

 5 per ct., by soaking it before feeding. Other trials with soaked and 

 dry corn have not always shown results so favorable for soaked 

 corn. (339) 



523. Corn fed in various forms. Mumford of the Illinois Sta- 

 tion 1 fed 4 lots of choice feeders, averaging about 1,000 Ibs. each, for 

 186 days. Lots III and V contained 10 steers each, and the other 

 lots 15 steers each. Pigs following the steers worked over the drop- 

 pings. Each lot was given clover hay for roughage, a limited allow- 

 ance of gluten meal being fed in the first half and of oil meal in the 

 second half of the trial. As the table shows, Lot I was fed ear 

 corn ; Lot II, corn-and-cob meal ; Lot III, shelled corn ; Lot IV, corn 

 meal; and Lot V, ear corn and shock corn, this lot being fed no 

 gluten meal. 



Lot II, fed corn-and-cob meal, made neither larger nor more eco- 

 nomical gains than Lot I, fed ear corn, while the pigs following the 



1 Bui. 103. 



