Feed and Management of Fattening Cattle. 



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

 after they have been fed and watered." 



Funkhouser^ 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. 



n. 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 oU meal additional to furnish the protein; in the 

 second, silage furnishes the roughage, with bran, com 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. 



Dry 

 matter. 



Digestible nutrients. 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Carbo- 



hy- 

 urates. 



Ether 

 extract. 



A 



Ration No. 1. 

 Wolff-Lehmann standard 



Corn fodder, 8 pounds 



Clover hay, 2 pounds 



Dent corn, 14 pounds 



Oil meal, O. P., 4 pounds 



Total 



Ration No. S, 



Com silage, 30 pounds 



Oat straw, 5 poun<ls 



Roller bran, 10 pounds 



Corn and cob meal, 4 pounds. 

 Cotton-seed meal, 2 pounds... 



Total 



Lbs. 

 30 



Lbs. 

 2.50 



Lbs. 

 15.00 



Lbs. 

 .50 



4.62 



1.69 



12.52 



3.63 



.20 



.13 



1.09 



1.17 



2.77 



.72 



9.34 



1.31 



.28 



22.46 



2.59 



14.14 



.94 



6.27 

 4.54 

 8.81 

 3.40 

 1.84 



.27 

 .06 

 1.22 

 .18 

 .74 



1.93 



3.92 



2.40 



.38 



.21 

 .04 

 .27 

 .12 

 .24 



24.86 



2.47 



12.02 



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



