1893.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 117 



3. Feeding Record of Second Wiiiter Season. 

 Nov. 10, 1891, to May 16, 1892. 



[Coarse fodder articles : upland meadow hay, dent corn ensilage, sweet corn ensi- 

 lage, corn stover, sugar beets, globe mangolds and turnips; fine fodder articles: 

 wheat bran, maize feed (Chicago) and gluten feed (Buffalo).] 



The steers returning from the pasture November 3, were 

 for a week allowed out-door exercise between the times of 

 feeding, to make the change for subsequent close confinement 

 a gradual one. 



The system of feeding remained materially the same as 

 on previous occasion. The daily ration of grain feed was a 

 definite one for each period, and the same in quantity for 

 each animal at the time. It consisted during the first five 

 periods of equal weights of wheat bran and Chicago maize 

 feed, from 3.44 to 4 pounds each, and during the last feeding 

 period (VI.) of equal weights of wheat bran and Buffalo 

 gluten feed, 4 pounds each, per head, daily. The daily 

 coarse fodder ration consisted at different times of either 

 English hay with roots, or of corn ensilage. The amount 

 of roots was a definite one, and the same in case of all 

 animals ; while the daily amount of hay and of corn ensilage 

 consumed was controlled by the appetite of each steer. 



The following detailed description of the six fodder rations 

 fed during the succeeding feeding periods represents the 

 average composition of the daily diet. Changes from one 

 diet to another were made gradually for obvious reasons, 

 allowing six days to pass by before recording results. 



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



Wheat bran, • . . . . $22 00 



Maize feed, 25 00 



Gluten feed, 23 00 



Hay, 15 00 



TurnijDS, 2 50 



Globe mangolds, 4 00 



Dent coi-n ensilage, 2 50 



Sweet corn ensilage, ■ 2 50 



Corn stover, 5 00 



Sugar beets, . . , 5 00 



