tinned consuming large amounts of roughage. Better results would 

 probably have followed if less roughage had been consumed during 

 the latter part of the feeding period. In fact it became necessary 

 to arbitrarily reduce the amount eaten in Lot 3 during the last 

 month in order to insure large enough consumption of grain to re- 

 turn satisfactory gains. 



With the above details in mind the table showing the daily 

 feed consumed presents some interesting figures relating to the 

 appetites of the cattle. Since no attempt was made in 1909-10 to 

 feed grain to the limit of the appetites of the cattle, until after the 

 feeding period had been well started, the effect of the various com- 

 binations of silage and clover on the grain consumption is best 

 shown by the results of 1910-11 and the last four months of 1909-10 

 when corn was given according to the appetites of the cattle. Con- 

 sidering the matter from this standpoint it will be noted that the 

 grain consumed depends primarily on the amount of silage eaten. 

 The corn in the silage evidently replaces the shelled corn in the 

 ration in amounts approximating the grain contained in the silage, 

 thereby reducing the amount of grain consumed by cattle on full 

 feed. The cattle on full feed of silage consumed approximately 

 two-thirds as much corn as those receiving only clover hay as 

 roughage. As the fattening period of cattle advances, less rough- 

 age and, up to a certain point, more grain is consumed. This point 

 in Lot 2 was reached in 1909-10 at the end of the fourth month 

 and in 1910-11 at the end of the third month. When silage is 

 being fed, however, the grain consumed does not apparently cease 

 to increase until a very small amount of silage is being consumed. 

 In other words, enough less silage is consumed in the latter end of 

 the feeding period to permit the corn ration being gradually in- 

 creased instead of remaining stationary the last month or two as 

 is the case when only dry roughage is fed. The apparent contra- 

 diction of these statements in the results of Lots 3 and 4 of 1909-10 

 is due to some musty and partly rotten corn being fed during the 

 latter part of March and the first part of April that threw the cattle 

 off feed. 



Another marked effect of silage in the ration was the reduc- 

 tion in the amount of clover hay eaten. There was, however, no 

 reduction in the quantities of dry matter consumed in the form of 

 roughage. There was approximately the same amount of dry mat- 

 ter in three pounds of silage as in one pound of hay fed these cattle. 

 While there was a very material displacement of hay by silage, de- 

 pending upon the amount of the latter fed, there was more dry 

 matter consumed where both silage and hay were fed than where 

 either was fed alone. 



