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also including profit on the pork. The first lot, therefore, 

 appears at an advantage of $11.33 per steer over the lot 

 receiving no silage, while the second lot also appears at 

 an advantage of $7.07 per steer over this lot. Judging 

 from these results, the silo is a paying investment to the 

 beef feeder. The difference in net profit from feeding 

 these 30 steers the full silage ration and the corn and 

 clover ration alone, would amount to $339.90 in favor of 

 the full silage ration." 



Indiana and Ohio seem to have set the pace for feeding 

 eilage to beef cattle, and an increasingly large number of 

 silos is being erected as a result of the stimulus given 

 to this kind of feeding. The Breeder's Gazette of Chi- 

 cago says: 



"Indiana feeders who have demonstrated to their own 

 satisfaction that silage is valuable for beef production 

 are expanding their operations this season, and have been 

 liberal buyers at Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City. South- 

 ern Michigan will feed an unusually large number of cattle, 

 owing to scarcity of lambs. Illinois has been a heavy pur- 

 chaser both at Kansas City and Omaha, and Chicago 

 could have sent five good feeding steers into nearby terri- 

 tory where one has been available. 



"Continued high prices have encouraged cattle feeding 

 in sections where, according to confident prophecy, the 

 industry was on the wane." 



Quoting again from an agricultural publication: 



"The Kansas stations report that steers fed a ration 

 with silage made better gains, and excelled those without 

 silage as prime beef. The Ontario Agricultural College 

 reports that more rapid gains and cheaper gains were 

 made on grain and silage than on grain and hay or grain 

 and roots. 



"From results it appears that cattle receiving silage as 

 their sole roughness during the winter, made the largest 

 average gains, did not drift materially when turned on 

 grass after the first ten days, slaughtered out to better ad- 

 vantage than dry-fed cattle, and were in a thriftier and 

 better condition throughout the entire feeding period. This 

 would go to show that succulent foods can be fed to cattle 

 maintained as stackers and flniihed on grass. Larger re- 

 turns can be got from feeding iilage to cattle than from 



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