YEARLINGS TURNED TO PASTURE 



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TABLE XX 

 FEED CONSUMED DAILY BY THE STEERS AFTER RETURNING FROM PASTURE 



Weight 



ACTUAL 



PER 100 POUNDS LIVE WEIGHT 



Grain Hay 



Silage 



Grain Hay 



Silage 



The record includes the steers from Groups V and VII turned to 

 pasture when they were one year old and averaged approximately 600 

 pounds in weight. Those from Group V were sent to market the same 

 day the stall-fed steers were ready. The others were fed six weeks 

 longer before they reached the 1,200-pound weight. 



TABLE XXI 

 SUMMARY OF PASTURE LOTS, GROUPS V AND VII 



Average weight on return from pasture, 707.6 pounds. 



Special attention is invited to the light grain ration fed, on the 

 average, to the two groups of steers during the various stages of 

 growth after their return from pasture. In going from 707.6 pounds 

 in weight to 1,204.4 pounds, the daily grain ration averaged 8.23 

 pounds, and they gained 100 pounds to 412 pounds of grain consumed. 

 Comparing this with results obtained in seventy-one experiments re- 

 viewed in the new and revised edition of Feeds and Feeding, 1 we find 

 that the average pounds of grain to 100 pounds of gain is 804, or nearly 

 double the amount required in our investigation. 



The general complaint is that there is little, if any, profit in beef- 

 production, and yet the common practice in feeding experiments as 

 well as in so-called practical feeding, is to feed from 50 to 100 per cent 



1 Henry, W. A. Feeds and Feeding. 691 pp. 15th Ed. 1915. 



