did the animals receiving whole stover or shredded stover. 

 Unfortunately, the amounts offered were not such as to 

 make the comparison strictly fair. What would have been 

 the result with respect to the dry matter consumed had the 

 silage lot in each trial been fed as liberally as were the 

 whole stover and shredded stover lots, that is, if they had 

 been fed so that they would have shown the same percent- 

 age of refuse material, cannot be determined by our data. 

 The value of silage for the wintering of cattle will be dis- 

 cussed in another Bulletin and in the light of subsequent 

 and much more exhaustive trials. 



V. The Feeding Value of a Combination of Stover 

 and Clover Hay Without Grain. 



Stover, when fed alone, is notably deficient in available 

 proteids. In this respect it is considerably behind timothy. 

 It was sought to determine what effect the addition of a 

 limited quantity of clover hay would have on the efficiency 

 of a corn stover ration as compared with stover alone, 

 and as compared with timothy hay. 



In both trials this combined ration produced much bet- 

 ter results than did shredded or whole stover, and better 

 results than were obtained from feeding timothy hay alone. 



It will be observed that in the first trial with this com- 

 bination, the gain per steer was 58.4 pounds, as compared 

 with 30.8 pounds with timothy hay, and in the second trial 

 the gain from stover and clover hay was 6 pounds per steer, 

 as compared with a loss of 7.5 pounds with timothy hay 

 alone. 



In the second trial, the lot receiving this combined 

 ration was the only lot receiving no grain that made a gain. 



In the light of these results, it may be concluded that 

 equal parts of corn stover and clover hay will produce 

 materially better results than will clear timothy hay. 



That the enhancement of the feeding value of stover by 

 adding some material relatively rich in protein is feasible 

 and profitable is, in the light of our results, evident. It 

 will, however, be much more strikingly shown by the results 

 of other experiments, where a small quantity of corn was 

 given in addition to the coarse fodder. 



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