10 Cattle Feeding Experiments. 



Corn, 35 cents per bushel (621/2 cents per hundred). 

 Unhusked corn, 31 cents per bushel. 

 Prairie hay, |6.00 per ton. 

 Alfalfa hay, $6.00 per ton. 

 Corn-stover, $2.50 per ton. 



COMMENTS ON THE RESULTS. 



It will be noted by the table that the largest gains in this 

 experiment were made on snapped corn and alfalfa hay, but 

 that the cheapest gains were made on corn, stover, and al- 

 falfa, the stover costing $2.50 per ton in comparison with 

 alfalfa hay at $6.00 per ton. The ration fed Lot 6 was the 

 same as that fed Lot 5 except that in Lot 6 the corn fed was 

 attached to the stalk. Charging four cents per bushel for 

 husking corn from the shock, the net cost of producing one 

 pound of gain was the same in both of these lots, as the cattle 

 fed corn fodder dropped a few more ears on the ground and 

 somewhat more pork was therefore produced in that lot. 



Snapped corn, prairie and alfalfa hay produced the next 

 largest gains, but here also the substitution of corn-stover 

 for the prairie hay gave cheaper gains. 



The lot fed snapped corn and prairie hay and the lot fed 

 snapped corn and corn-stover each made very unsatisfactory 

 gains, as might be expected when no food of a nitrogenous 

 character (rich in protein) forms a part of the ration. The 

 last line of the table gives the nutritive ratio of each ration, 

 by .which is meant the proportion of protein (lean-forming 

 compounds) to non-nitrogenous material (fat formers) of 

 which starch, sugar, and fats, or oils, are familiar examples. 

 The proportion of nitrogenous to non-nitrogenous material 

 as indicated by the figures is very small in these two lots, 

 seemingly not enough protein to meet the demands of the 

 system. 



In each of the four lots where alfalfa, a protein-rich rough- 

 ness, was used the gains were larger and were made on less 



