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and the pulp decreased until the grain entirely supplants 

 the pulp for a short period just before the steers are put 

 on the market. In spite of the economy of feeding grain, 

 thousands of steers are placed on the market without it. 

 The Colorado Station, 1 in a one-hundred-day period, 

 found that if the steers were in poor condition when the 

 fattening period commenced, adding about half of an 

 ordinary ration of corn to the pulp and alfalfa hay caused 



FIG. 27. Pulp being piped from factory to silo. 



the steers to gain nearly half as much again as without 

 the grain. With the same type of animals, the gain was 

 about three-fourths greater when grain and pulp were 

 fed than when only hay was used. The animals fed on 

 pulp were also more thrifty than those not receiving it. 

 For two-year-old fattening steers, nine pounds of wet 

 pulp was equal to 2.8 pounds of alfalfa hay or to one pound 

 of ground corn. In computing the amount of pulp neces- 

 sary for steer fattening, stock-men consider one and one- 

 half tons of pulp a month to be sufficient for each steer. 

 From four to seven tons of wet pulp and one ton of alfalfa, 



1 Carlyle, W. L., and Griffith, C. J., Colo. Exp. Sta., Bui. No. 102. 



