The Pennsylvania State College 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 



BULLETIN No. 124 



STEER FEEDING EXPERIMENTS AT THE 

 PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE 



By W. H. TOMHAVE and B. O. SEVERSON 



CONCLUSIONS. 



1. Corn silage at $3.50 per ton is more economical as a sole 

 roughage for feeding steers than a combination of silage and mixed 

 hay when hay is valued at $12.00 per ton. 



2. Corn silage was found more palatable for fattening steers 

 than ear corn, which makes it necessary to limit the amount of si- 

 lage in the ration in order to insure the greatest gain in flesh during 

 the finishing period. 



3. After paying farm prices for other feeds consumed (as indi- 

 cated in Table VII), the steers in Lot I (silage as a sole roughage) 

 returned $1.469 per bushel of corn. Lot II (silage and mixed hay 

 as a sole roughage) returned $1.308 per bushel. 



4. The margin necessary between the buying and selling prices 

 in Lot I was .57 cents and in Lot II .71 cents per hundred pounds, 

 live weight. 



5. Steers returned $2.23 more per head for feed consumed 

 when followed by hogs in the feed lot. 



6. Net profits received from experimental feeding cattle under 

 Pennsylvania conditions, not including pork produced, during the 

 winter of 1912-1913 ranged from $11.224 per head for Lot II to 

 $14.095 per head for Lot I. 



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