SUGAR BEETS FOR FATTENING STEERS 



SECOND TRIAL 1907-1908 



This trial lasted 22 weeks. The steers were two-year-olds. Lot i 

 was fed 12 pounds of corn per head each day, while Lot 2 was fed 

 6 pounds of corn and 30 pounds of sugar beets. 



FEED, GAIN, AND COST OF GAIN 



Note Corn at $1.00 per cwt.. Beets at $5.00 per ton, Alfa 1 fa Hay at $5.00 per ton. 



The two lots of steers made equal gains. 1502 pounds of sugar 

 beets replaced 313 pounds of corn and 190 pounds of hay in the 

 production of 100 pounds gain, or 4^4 pounds of sugar beets replaced 

 one pound of corn and *4 pound of hay. Figuring prices of feeds 

 the same as in the previous trial, the sugar beet ration cost $9.55 

 for every hundred pounds of gain produced, while the corn ration 

 cost $9.41. The greater cost in comparison with' the former trial is 

 undoubtedly due to the greater age of the steers. 



This trial is so closely in accord with the previous trial with 

 regard to the amount of beets necessary to replace half the corn 

 ration, that we may state with reasonable certainty, that sugar beets 

 when fed with a half ration of corn, have a feeding value of about 

 one-fifth that of corn ; it will take from 4^2 to 5 pounds of sugar 

 beets to give the results produced by one pound of corn. 



The steers used in the second experiment were priced by Mr. 

 Henry Gebhardt, of Denver, without a knowledge as to the manner 

 in which they had been fed. He valued the steers fed on sugar 

 beets and corn at 10 cents per hundred weight less than the steers 

 fed corn, so that the finish of the steers in one lot was not much 

 different from that in the other. 



