6 4 



Comparison of Different Roughnesses for Fattening Steers. 



First trial 1899-1900 119 days 4 two year old steers in each lot 

 full fed on shelled corn. 



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The Kind of Roughness Affects Very Materially the Outcome. 



The foregoing results are worthy of complete acceptance by 

 the student and feeder. It is perfectly obvious, therefore, that 

 the notion prevailing among practical feeders that the rough- 

 ness is of little consequence except to give the food a good me- 

 chanical condition and to hold it in the alimentary tract long 

 enough to be digested, and that the less roughness a steer con- 

 sumes the more grain he will eat and therefore the more rapidly 



