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under the ordinary farm conditions, to invest much labor and 

 money in the preparation of feed which increases the steer 

 gains wholly or mainly at the expense of the hog gains. So 

 long as the food is offered in palatable enough form to make the 

 steer gain at a rapid rate and make him fat in a reasonable time, 

 the feeder is not interested in how much passes through the 

 steer unmasticated or undigested, because the hog will make 

 good use of it. 



24. Taking the average price of all fat hogs and all the 

 fat steers sold on the Chicago market for the past twenty-four 

 years, it has been found that the hogs have brought a higher 

 price per pound. It will be accepted without argument that less 

 food is required to make a pound of gain on hogs than on 

 cattle. As a rule, therefore, the hog end of the cattle feeding 

 operation is more profitable than the cattle end. 



25. The number of hogs required to utilize the waste per 

 steer will vary greatly with the character of the feed, the way 

 in which it is prepared, and with the size and age of the cattle. 

 The range would be from two to three hogs per steer on snapped 

 ear corn, perhaps one and one-half on husked ear corn, about 

 one on shelled corn, and from one-third to one-half a hog on 

 crushed or ground corn. 



26. Whatever factors favor rapid and profitable gains on 

 cattle, excepting the better preparation of the feed, are liable 

 to be favorable to the hog that follows. For example, hogs 

 make better gains following cattle fed on clover or cowpea or 

 alfalfa roughness with corn than they do when the roughness 

 is timothy, millet or sorghum. Likewise there is a material 

 benefit to the hog by feeding the steer a limited amount of lin- 

 seed meal. There is also a benefit to the hog from feeding 

 cottonseed meal to the steer, although it is less marked than 

 when linseed meal is used. 



27. It is almost as profitable to use a supplemental feed 

 like tankage or linseed meal for hogs that are following cattle 

 as for those that are being fed on fresh grain. Especially is 

 this true of hogs following cattle fed on straight corn with 

 timothy or stover for roughness in winter or blue grass or 

 timothy pasture in summer. Likewise a clover, alfalfa, cowpea, 



