1893.] 



PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 



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Third Feeding Experiment avitii Steers. 



October, 1890, to May, 1892. 



Three one-year-old steers, grade Shorthorn, were selected 

 for the trial. They were bought at 32- cents per pound of 

 live weight on Oct. 14, 1890. No. 1 weighed 055 pounds, 

 No. 2 weighed 595 pounds and No, 3 weighed 629 pounds. 



The mode of feeding and the general management of the 

 third experiment corresponded in all essentials with the 

 course adopted in the second feeding experiment, previously 

 described. The third experiment is divided, as the second, 

 and for similar reasons, into three distinctly different stages 

 of progress, namely, feeding record oi first winter season, 

 of summer pasturing and of second winter season. 



1, Feeding Record of First Winter Season. 

 Oct. 14, 1890, to April 20, 1891. 



[Coarse fodder articles : upland meadow hay, barley straw, clover hay, corn ensi- 

 lage and turnips ; fine fodder articles : wheat bran and cotton-seed meal.] 



Local Market Cost per Ton of the Various Articles of Fodder used. 



Wheat bran, $23 50 



Cotton-seed meal, 27 50 



Barley straw, 5 00 



Hay, 15 00 



Mixed fodder, 12 00 



Turnips, 7 00 



Com ensilage, 2 75 



Analyses of the Various Articles of Fodder used. 



Food Analyses. 



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Moisture at 100° C, 

 Dry matter, 



Analysis of Dry Matter. 

 Crude ash 



" cellulose 



• i fat 



" protein, .... 

 Non-nitrogenous extract matter, 



12.11 



87.89 



100.00 



7.40 



12.17 



5.04 



18.48 

 56.91 



100.00 



10.13 



89.87 



100.00 



8.22 



7.26 



11.64 



45.99 



26.89 



100.00 



11.44 

 88.56 



100.00 



5.30 



33.85 

 3.38 

 9.24 



48.23 



100.00 



9.72 

 90.28 



100.00 



6.43 



32.28 



2.49 



9.54 



49.26 



100.00 



17.41 



82.59 



89.32 

 10.68 



100.00 



14.98 

 30.37 

 1.75 

 16.64 

 36.26 



100.00 



9.54 



12.61 



2.05 



9.89 



65.91 



100.00 



100.00 



80.53 

 19.47 



100.00 



6.73 



26.90 



3.27 



8.97 



54.13 



100.00 



