8 Cattle Feeding Experiment. 



Lot 5, shelled corn 90 per cent, oil-meal 10 per cent, and 

 sorghum hay. 



CHARACTER OF FOODS USED. 



The shelled corn used was a good quality of yellow dent. 



The oil-meal was oil-cake which had been ground coarsely, 

 the particles being about the size of peas or kernels of corn. 

 The pea size is less likely to be adulterated than finely ground 

 meal and is not blown by the wind in open bunks. 



Both the prairie hay and the alfalfa were of good quality, 

 the latter being from an early cutting, therefore less laxa- 

 tive in its effects. 



The corn-stover was from corn cut and put in the shock 

 just after the husks about the ears had turned yellow, while 

 most of the stalk leaves were yet green. The kernels were 

 hard and well dented, so there was no injury whatever to the 

 corn by cut! ing and shocking at that stage. The ears were 

 all removed from the stalks several weeks later and the 

 stover (stalks without ears) was left in shocks outdoors 

 until late in winter, when it was stored under roof. It was 

 fed in open racks unshreddcd. 



The sorghum hay (cane) was grown by planting the seeds 

 rather thickly. The stems varied from the size of a pencil 

 to that of the finger on a man's hand. The fodder was kept 

 in stacks until late spring, when some was put under cover 

 for better preservation during rainy weather. The sorghum 

 was also fed in open racks uncut. 



METHOD OF FEEDING. 



Each lot having been gradually increased from four pounds 

 of grain per steer December 28th to ten pounds January 

 21st, the opening of the experiment proper, there remained 

 considerable room for a further increase before a full feed 

 of grain was reached. For the sake of economy in the larger 

 use of roughage, it was not until the end of the eighth week 



