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the animal unmasticated, and a considerable portion only par- 

 tially masticated, so that the hog gain per head of cattle will 

 be very large. Add to this a pasture rich in clover for summer 

 feeding, or a roughness of clover, cowpea or alfalfa hay for 

 winter feeding, or a limited amount of linseed meal added to 

 the grain, and the conditions for the maximum hog gains per 

 steer are furnished. Thus 100 pounds of finely ground corn 

 has been found to produce about two-thirds of a pound of hog 

 gain, while 100 pounds of shelled corn under similar circurrir 

 stances produced four pounds of gain. We do not seem to have 

 any experimental data on hog gains with snapped corn. Pro- 

 fessor Mumford estimates* that out of 1,000 pounds of shelled 

 corn, 1 7 2-3 bushels, fed to ordinary two year old steers with 

 timothy hay in winter, there would be left undigested, for the 

 use of the hog, from 175 to 200 pounds, or that 800 pounds of 

 this grain would be utilized by the steer for the production of, 

 say, from 100 to no pounds of gain, leaving 200 pounds which 

 may be relied upon to produce from 40 to 50 pounds of pork. 

 These figures are very conservative indeed, and are con- 

 sidered to be below rather than above the average result. A 

 sort of rough average of the estimates of a number of the feed- 

 ers contributing to this bulletin was 2 pounds of steer gain and 

 2 pounds of hog gain per day per head of cattle, on the basis of 

 a half bushel of corn per day to each steer. This is a total 

 gain in live weight of eight pounds per bushel of corn, and will 

 readily be seen to be considerably in excess of Professor Mum- 

 ford's estimate. While this result may be secured with aged 

 cattle in thin to moderate flesh and with rather large and thin 

 hogs, it is believed that the gains per bushel of corn would be 

 considerably diminished when the steers and hogs were both ap- 

 proaching a fat condition. Taking, therefore, the entire feeding 

 period, it is believed that this figure would be somewhat too 

 high. 



*Prof. F. B. Mumford. "Factors in Profitable Beef Production." 

 Missouri Exp. Sta. Cir. 12, p. 22. 



