16 Economical Rations in Beef Production. 



TABLE III. Corn and prairie hay versus corn, linseed-meal and prairie hay. 



That linseed-meal is capable of supplying what corn and 

 prairie hay lacks is readily apparent when we note the 

 marked increase in daily gains effected by its use. Each year 

 the steers fed linseed-meal took on a more thrifty appear- 

 ance, as indicated by the coat of hair a few weeks after the 

 experiments were begun. They ate their grain with greater 

 relish and when on full feed consumed somewhat more grain, 

 which of course partly accounts for the increased gains. This 

 was especially noticeable in the short period of heavy grain 

 feeding in 1905-06 when the steers were crowded with grain 

 thruout that entire period, the oil-meal steers taking 5.5 

 pounds of grain per day in excess of the lot not receiving it. 

 However, in the two previous experiments when both lots 



