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Feeds and Feeding. 



shock corn, grown on 5.3 acres, or 43 per ct. more area than was re- 

 quired to furnish the corn silage. The silage-fed calves in Lot I 

 gained 3,693 Ibs. and the pigs following them only 87 Ibs. The steers 

 in Lot II, getting shock corn, gained only 3,133 Ibs., but the pigs fol- 

 lowing them gained 587 Ibs. Combining the gains of calves and pigs, 

 the gross returns are practically equal for the two lots, but, measured 

 by the area of land required, corn silage is 30 per ct. ahead of shock 

 corn in feeding value. (363) 



560. Corn silage v. stover. At the Ohio Station 1 Carmichael fed 

 2 lots of grade Short-horn steers averaging 955 Ibs. in weight to de- 

 termine the value of corn silage when substituted for about half the 

 dry roughage in the ration. The lots, containing 20 and 21 steers 

 respectively, were fed for 140 days with the following results : 



Corn silage for fattening steers. 



The average daily gain per steer was the same for each lot. While 

 the dry-fed steers required 845 Ibs. of concentrates for 100 Ibs. of 

 gain, those fed silage required only 714 Ibs. In this trial 1 ton of 

 corn silage replaced 4.4 bushels of corn, 74 Ibs. of corn stover, and 

 514 Ibs. of mixed hay. Each pig following the dry-fed steers gained 

 0.16 Ib. more daily than those following the silage-fed steers. Tho 

 fed the full silage allowance up to the day before being shipped, the 

 steers so fed showed no greater shrinkage than the others. 



561. Corn silage v. clover hay. At the Indiana Station 2 Skinner 

 and Cochel compared corn silage and clover hay as roughages for fat- 

 tening steers getting shelled corn and cotton-seed meal for concen- 

 trates. Three lots, each of ten 2-yr.-old grade Angus steers averaging 



1 Bui. 193. 



2 Bui. 136. 



