348 The Feeding of Animals 



variety of easily digestible materials. Rough fodder 

 in any quantity is not adapted to fattening bovioes. 

 With this exception, the whole list of high -class cattle 

 foods may be regarded as available, and the selection 

 will properly depend largely upon prices and the local 

 supply. In the northern states, hays from the fine 

 grasses and the legumes, silage, roots, cereal grain 

 mixtures and such by-product feeding stuffs as offer 

 digestible nutrients at the least cost wdll all appeal to 

 the experienced feeder. In the south, cottonseed by- 

 products may, with economy, enter largely into the 

 ration. In the west, the fodders peculiar to that re- 

 gion will be utilized, corn being the chief, and some- 

 times the only, grain that can be fed with economy. 

 The following may be regarded as good types of mix- 

 tures for the full feeding of fattening steers weighing 

 approximately 1,000 lbs. each at the beginning of the 

 feeding period. They will supply about 16 lbs. of 

 digestible organic matter if their components are of 

 average quality and composition: 



5 lbs. clover hay. [ 8 lbs. alfalfa hay. 



16 lbs. corn silage. 4 J 12 lbs. corn meal. 

 13 lbs. corn meal. [ 5 i^g, ground oats. 



3 lbs. wheat bran. 



10 lbs. corn stover. [ 5 lbs. clover hay. 



20 lbs. mangels. ^ J r)0 lbs. beet pulp. 



14.5 lbs. corn meal. 'M 11 lbs. corn meal. 



2 lbs. cottonseed meal. (^ 2 lbs. cottonseed meal. 



8 Ib's. mixed hay. [ 8 lbs. corn stover. 



12.5 lbs. corn meal. 6 \ 12.5 lbs. corn meal. 



3 lbs. wlieat bran. [ 20 lbs. brewer's grains, wet. 

 2 lbs. oil meal or gluten f'd. 



