BULLETIN No. 145 



STEER FEEDING EXPERIMENTS 



W. H. TOMHAVE, B. O. SEVERSON, PAUL GERLAUGH 



The experimental work reported in this bulletin covers the 

 three years of (a) 1913-1914, (b) 1914-1915 and (c) 1915-1916. It is 

 presented in the form of a summary rather than as a detailed de- 

 scription of each experiment. Details of each experiment have 

 been published annually in the Annual Report of The Pennsylvania 

 State College. The work of 1913-1914 was also reported in Bulle- 

 tin 133 of this station. The work deals largely with a study of the 

 rations or combinations of feeds best suited to Pennsylvania con- 

 ditions. The work of three consecutive years with Lots I, II, III, 

 and IV, which were fed in the same manner each year, is herewith 

 reported. The work with Lot V (a) covers the year 1913-1914; 

 that with Lot V (b) covers the year 1914-1915 ; and Lot VI, the 

 year 1915-1916. 



SUMMARY 



1. The common Pennsylvania ration of corn and cob meal, 

 wheat bran, mixed hay and corn stover, fed during the entire 

 140-day period, did not improve the finish nor value of the cattle, 

 and it proved to be more expensive than any of the rations which 

 contained silage as roughage only, or roughage and cottonseed meal 

 in the early part of the feeding period, and whose combinations 

 were supplemented with corn in the latter part ; also when corn 

 silage and cottonseed meal were fed during the entire period. 



2. Corn silage proved to be the most desirable roughage. 



(a) Bulletin 133, by W. H. Tomhave and C. W. Hickman. 



(b) Annual Eeport, 1914-15: W. H. Tomhave and B. O. Severson. 



(c) Annual Report, 1915-16: W. H. Tomhave and Paul Gerlaugh. 



