RETURNS FROM ANIMALS 



MEAT AND MILK PRODUCTION COMPARED 



A summary of the investigations of 

 American experiment stations shows that 

 100 pounds of dry matter produced ten 

 pounds of increase in live weight of steers. 

 The same quantity of food when fed to 

 milch cows produced 74 pounds of milk, 

 plus one pound of increase in live weight. 

 This 74 pounds of milk contained 3% 

 pounds of fat. In general, therefore, the 

 food required to produce a pound of butter 

 fat is about three times that required to 

 produce a pound of increase in steers. 



COST OF STEER FEEDING 

 The fattening of beef animals is largely 

 conducted by farmers who make a specialty 

 of it. This is particularly true in the so- 

 called corn belt. Into this region are gath- 

 ered the two and three-year-old and, more 

 rarely, yearling steers, many of which have 

 been reared in Texas or in the mountain 

 states where the supply of maize is not suffi- 

 ciently ample to fatten them. These are 

 placed in paddocks with open sheds, where 



