FINISHING STEERS 



1907, 1908 and 1909 



j . H. SKINNER W. A. COCHEI/ 



SUMMARY 



PART I 



1. Calves, given a full feed of grain from November to May, 

 will make more rapid and cheaper gains, attain a higher finish, sell 

 at a higher price and return a greater profit if continued in dry lot 

 than if turned on pasture for finishing. 



2. Full fed calves when turned on grass, shrink in weight 

 during the first 10 days and require from two to three weeks to 

 regain their original weight. 



3. Steers in dry lot consume a greater amount of concentrates 

 than similar cattle on pasture. 



PART II 



4. Cattle, fed on well balanced rations throughout the feeding 

 period make more expensive and less rapid gains during the finish- 

 ing period. 



5. A nitrogenous supplement added during the finishing 

 period, to a ration deficient in protein, increases the rate and de- 

 creases the cost of gains. 



6. During the springs and summers of 1907, 1908 and 1909, an 

 additional profit to that secured in regular feeding experiments, 

 resulted from carrying steers to a higher degree of finish. 



PART III 



7. The "Short Fed" cattle exhibited by Purdue Experiment 

 Station at the International, 1908, made more rapid gains, cheaper 

 gains and sold at a higher price per hundred than any other cattle 

 entered in the "Short Fed Special" contest. 



Associate in Animal Husbandry Resigned December 1, 1909 



