Cattle Feeding Experiments. 



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FOUR PERTINENT FACTS 

 Disclosed by Three Experiments (1903=1906). 



(1) With present prices for both corn and beef, greater con= 

 sideration must be given to the character and quantity of rough= 

 ness fed in connection with corn to fattening cattle. 



(2) Alfalfa hay is pronouncedly superior to prairie hay for 

 beef production, and the more rapid the extension of the area of 

 land devoted to the production of alfalfa, supplanting the less 

 valuable and lower yielding native hay, the more rapid will be 

 the production of wealth from our soil. 



(3) Native prairie hay, if for any reason it is most available 

 for feeding purposes, should not be fed with corn alone, but 

 rather with corn supplemented with a small quantity of some 

 protein food, such as oil=meal, to give more nearly a balance of 

 nutrients in keeping with animal requirements. 



(4) Cornstalks cut and put in the shock immediately after 

 the ears ripen possess a food value which can not consistently 

 be ignored by the farmer, and existing land values warrant the 

 larger utilization of this roughness by the adoption of methods 

 of harvesting that will make such material more valuable for 

 feeding purposes. 



