Value of Various Feeding Stuffs. 



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than those following steers fed timothy hay, prairie hay, or corn 

 stover. He concludes that the advantages of feeding legume hay, 

 such as alfalfa, clover, or cowpea, are: Cheaper and more rapid 

 gains; better finish and better selling qualities with increased hog 

 gains; and manure richer in nitrogen. (546-7) 



Various roughages for fattening steers compared. 



555. Velvet beans in the pod and crab grass. At the Florida Sta- 

 tion 1 Scott fed 2 lots, each of four 717-lb. steers from native cows and 

 sired by a well-bred Short-horn bull, the rations shown below for 84 

 days. Both lots received corn, Lot I being fed cotton-seed meal in 

 addition and crab-grass hay for roughage, and Lot II velvet beans in 

 the pod and cotton-seed hulls for roughage. 



Oral) grass and velvet beans in the pod for rotighage witli Florida steers. 



It is seen that both lots of steers made most satisfactory gains, 

 those getting velvet beans in the pod gaining somewhat more than 

 the others. (263) 



1 Bui. 96. 

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