Cattle Feeding Experiments. 1 



of the corn fed on the stalk in this lot was determined in the 

 following manner: 



The stalks fed Lot 5 were weighed before the ears were de- 

 tached and the ears were afterwards weighed separately. 

 The same weight of the same kind of fodder, ears attached, 

 was fed Lot 6, and the weight of the ears was assumed to be 

 equal to that fed Lot 5. 



METHOD OF FEEDING. 



The steers in this experiment having been accustomed to 

 prairie hay, each lot was given that sort of roughness pre- 

 vious to the opening of the experiment proper. During this 

 preliminary feeding, the several lots were very gradually put 

 upon their experimental rations, so that at the end of two 

 weeks the rations were of the kind used in the experiment 

 and the records were begun. The preliminary feeding was 

 simply to accustom each lot to its experimental ration grad- 

 ually. At first, the steers in the several lots were each given 

 but three pounds of snapped corn per day. If cattle are un- 

 accustomed to corn, a larger quantity given at first might 

 permit some individuals to overeat, and this small quantity 

 was used to prevent any harmful results from overfeeding on 

 the start. The amount was gradually increased and No- 

 vember 1st, the opening day of the experiment proper, each 

 steer was receiving on the average five pounds of snapped 

 corn per day. The amount of corn was increased at the rate 

 of about two pounds per head per week until the close of the 

 experiment, January 24th, when the steers were receiving 24 

 pounds of snapped corn, equivalent to 16.8 pounds shelled 

 corn per head per day. 



At the same time, the roughness fed each steer was dimin- 



I-'shed from 22 pounds per day November 1st to about 8 pounds 

 Fanuary 24th. In all lots the roughness supplied was as 

 learly what the cattle would clean up as the herdsman could 

 estimate. In other words, each lot was given as much rough- 



