The results of those lots which received no grain have 

 been fully discussed under the fourth trial without grain in 

 their bearing upon the various methods of wintering cattle 

 in that way. Inasmuch as these animals were fed in con- 

 nection with animals having a limited grain ration, it will be 

 interesting to make some comparison of these two methods 

 of wintering cattle and to compare two important sources of 

 protein. 



We have here, in other words, a comparison of stover 

 alone and of stover and four pounds of corn meal daily, and 

 of stover and four pounds of grain, consisting of 3 parts 

 corn meal and 2 parts cottonseed meal daily. It will be 

 seen that the cattle having stover alone lost 200 pounds, or 

 an average of something like three-fourths of a pound daily 

 per head. Those receiving all of the stover they would 

 eat and four pounds of corn meal daily per head, ate very 

 little less stover some 300 pounds out of a total of 

 nearly 5000 pounds. Strange to say, however, this amount 

 of corn meal, combined with stover, was not sufficient in 

 the very severe weather during which this experiment was 

 conducted to sustain the animals without loss of weight. By 

 the addition of 4 Ibs. of corn meal daily per head, however, 

 this loss was reduced to 85 pounds per lot, as compared with 

 200 pounds for cattle on stover alone. 



It will be noted, however, that when the mixed grain 

 was substituted for corn meal alone, the mixture consisting 

 of three parts corn meal and two parts cottonseed meal, the 

 effect was very striking both in the amount of stover eaten 

 and in the effect upon the live weight of the animals. 

 Instead of diminishing slightly the amount of stover con- 

 sumed as was the case when corn meal alone w r as given 

 with stover as compared with stover alone, the addition of 

 the cottonseed meal to the ration, with its available protein, 

 had the effect, as is always the case, of stimulating the 

 appetite. This as is usually the case has the effect of in- 

 creasing materially the amount of roughness consumed. 

 This is noted in the fact that the steers without any grain 

 whatever consumed 4774 pounds of stover, while those with 

 four pounds of corn meal daily and all the stover they would 

 eat consumed 4470 pounds, or as has already been pointed out, 



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