SUMMARY OF FEED REQUIREMENTS 



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TABLE XI 



SUMMARY OF THE FIVE GROUPS, GIVING AVERAGE WEIGHT OF STEERS AND FEED 

 CONSUMED PER STEER 



Table XI tells a story of great importance to every one directly or 

 indirectly interested in the promotion of agriculture, the restoration 

 and maintenance of soil fertility, and the reestablishment and main- 

 tenance of the beef industry. It reveals at a glance what a farmer has 

 to stake for every hundred-pounds' growth of the steer. It tells the 

 story in terms which every farmer and farm laborer can understand. 

 On the one side there is the new, grade, beef -bred calf ; on the other, 

 two years later, is the finished steer weighing 1,200 pounds. Between 

 them is the record of the material required to bring about this change. 

 It was 460 pounds of milk, 1,659 of skim milk, 4,436.6 of grain, 4,193.7 

 of hay, and 4,606.3 of corn silage. Following the total required for 

 bringing a steer to 1,200 pounds, is added the total feed required to 

 bring to a weight of 1,300, 1,400, and 1,500 pounds. 



The table, however, does not give the kind and amount of the differ- 

 ent feed-stuffs included in the "grain" column in Table XL This is 

 given in Table XII. 



Table XII shows that during the first year the calves received, on 

 an average, 1,138.4 pounds of grain, composed of 235.5 pounds of corn, 

 106.4 of barley, 347.2 of bran, 267.8 of linseed meal, 85.0 of flour mid- 

 dlings, and 95.6 of oats. To this should be added 0.9 of a pound of 

 blood meal fed to Group III. Had clover or alfalfa been fed instead 

 of wild hay, less than half the amount of linseed meal would have been 

 needed. On account of the high price of oats and barley, small 

 amounts of these were fed. From the experience obtained in the 



