4 8 



few days later some of the steers in this lot went "off feed" and the 

 daily allowance of corn silage was reduced to about 27 pounds per 

 head. After all the steers regained their appetites, the allowance was 

 increased to 36.6 pounds per head, which was the largest amount of 

 silage consumed after that time. 



The roughage in Lot 8 consisted of clover hay and corn silage ; 

 silage was fed twice daily in as large amounts as the steers would 

 consume without reducing their appetites for grain. Clover hay was 

 kept before them at all times. The table shows that the relative 

 amounts of roughage consumed during the different 30 day periods 

 correspond with that of the other two lots, being slightly greater 

 in the second 30 day period than in the first, and gradually decreas- 

 ing after the second 30 day period, as the consumption of concen- 

 trates increased. 



TABLE XVII. Showing Average Daily Gain per Steer by Months 

 by Long and Short-Fed Steers, Winter 1909-10 



GAINS. Table XVII shows the average daily gain per steer by 

 months and the total gain per head for steers in short vs. long feed- 

 ing experiments. It will be noticed that both "short-fed" lots made 

 more rapid gain than the long- fed lot. The average daily gain for 

 the four months period was 2.48 pounds in Lot 3, 2.55 pounds in 

 Lot 7, and 3 . 19 pounds in Lot 8. The difference between the gains 

 made by Lot 8 and the other two lots is quite large and may be due 

 to one or more of three factors; the thin condition of the steers 



