The Pennsylvania State College 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 



BULLETIN No. 88 



STEER FEEDING EXPERIMENTS 1907-08 



BY T. I. MAIRS AND W. H. TOMHAVE 



CONCLUSIONS 



1. When corn silage forms a considerable portion of the ration 

 of fattening steers mor^e care is required in getting them on full feed 

 than when a dry ration is fed exclusively, or silage is fed in small 

 quantities. 



2. Omitting the first two weeks, steers fed corn silage ad libi- 

 tum once a day and a limited grain ration made better gains during 

 the first half of a fourteen weeks fattening period than did steers on 

 a full grain ration with about half a silage ration, while during the 

 last half of the fattening period the results were reversed, therefore. 



3. During the early part a fourteen weeks fattening period the. 

 steers getting the larger quantity of dry matter in their feed made 

 slightly better gains than those getting the smaller quantity of dry 

 matter in connection with an equivalent amount of nutrients, and 

 during the latter part of the period, the steers getting these nutrients 

 in connection with the smaller amount of dry matter made the 

 better gains. 



4. Slaughter tests failed to show any difference in the car- 

 casses of the two lots that might be attributed to the difference in 

 the feed. 



