When the orts were weighed up, a similar sample was 

 drawn for the same purpose. 



Water. The animals had free access to fresh deep- 

 well water in a trough under the shed. 



Salt. In most instances barrel salt was kept in a box 

 under the shed, where the steers had free access to it. In 

 some of the experiments rock salt was used instead. 



FIRST TRIAL 1895-6 



TIMOTHY HAY AND FIELD-CURED STOVER, 

 FED WHOLE 



February 1st to March 2 1st, 1896. 49 days. Five 

 Yearling Steers in each Lot. 



The Timothy Hay used in this experiment was cut 

 when the seed was in the dough, cured in the ordinary 

 way, and put up in large stacks in the open field in the 

 usual manner. Aside from the presence of considerable 

 coarse weeds, the hay woitld be considered average quality. 



The Stover was very coarse and large, the corn having 

 yielded from 75 to 85 bushels per acre, was cut at about the 

 usual time, set up in shocks sixteen hills square, husked at 

 the usual time, set up again and allowed to stand until 

 hauled in to be fed. 



In other words, the common farm practice with respect 

 to the handling of both of these feeds was imitated as 

 closely as possible. 



Excessive rains in the preceding December had very 

 materially lowered the quality of the stover, so that, taken 

 in connection with its coarseness, it was not up to the 

 average in palatableness or quality, and no grain of any 

 sort was fed. 



Eleven high-grade Shorthorn Steers, about eighteen 

 months old, averaging about 675 pounds in weight, in rather 

 thin condition, were used in the experiment. They were 

 divided so that Lot I, having Timothy Hay, contained six 

 steers, and Lot II, receiving Whole Corn Stover, contained 

 five steers. 



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