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508. Baby beef. At the Kansas Station 1 Cottrell, Haney, and 

 Elling placed 130 calves, just weaned, in the feed lot during the lat- 

 ter part of October. Sixty were grade Short-horn, Hereford, and 

 Angus range heifers. The rest were purchased locally or raised at 

 the college farm. All were fed twice daily with great regularity, 

 getting all the grain and roughage they would clean up within 3 

 hours after feeding. They were sheltered by a common board shed 

 open to the south and were fed for 7 months with the results shown 

 below : 



Feed and 7-months gain of calves fed for baby beef. 



The surprisingly small amount of feed for 100 Ibs. of gain will be 

 noted. The last of the following May, at which time they must have 

 been from 12 to 14 months old, the entire lot averaged 800 Ibs. in the 

 college feed lot, and on shipping to Kansas City shrank 3 per ct. 



509. Short- v. long-feed. At the Indiana Station 2 Skinner and 

 Cochel obtained the following results during long and short-feeding 

 periods with 2 lots of 10 grade Short-horn and Hereford steers each. 

 All were strictly grass-fed cattle, the short-fed steers carrying enough 

 flesh to be sold as killers when the feeding began, the others being of 

 the same quality but thinner in flesh: 



The short-fed steers made the high average daily gain of 3.2 Ibs., 

 while those long-fed made lower daily but larger total gains. A 

 greater proportion of concentrates was given the short-fed steers, and 

 they required somewhat more corn but less roughage per 100 Ibs. 

 gain than did the long-fed steers. During fattening each long-fed 

 steer consumed 55 bushels and each short-fed steer 34 bushels of 

 corn. Valuing corn at 50 cents a bushel, and cotton-seed meal at 

 $28, clover hay at $8, and corn silage at $2.50 per ton, each 100 Ibs. 

 of gain made by the short-fed steers cost $8.17 and by the long-fed 



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