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RESULTS FROM A PRELIMINARY FEEDING OF BRAN, 

 SHORTS AND OIL MEAL. 



Three grade Shorthorn range steers, the Aberdeen Angus range steer 

 and the Experiment Station Holstein grade steer constituted the brian and 

 shorts fed animals on this experiment. 



These steers together with the barley lot were fed 'bran and shorts, 

 equal parts by weight, mixed with a pound of oil meal per day per head. 

 This ration was given them for a month, while they were becoming ac- 

 customed to a gnain ration as well as to confinement in the barn, and to 

 the handling, which the test made necessary. During this first four 

 weeks this lot of steers ate an average of 12 pounds of grain per day and 

 made an average gain of a little less than a pound and >a quarter per day. 

 The remaining five steers constituting the lot which was to be compared 

 with them ate a fraction less -than 12 pounds per head per day and 

 gained an average of a little more than, a pound and a third each daily. 



The following table gives the facts stated above in convenient form; 



RESULTS OF FOUR WEEKS PRELIMINARY FEEDIN'G WITH BRAN AND SHORTS. 



The barley lot are thus seen to have made a somewhat better showimg 

 whik on the same grain during the preliminary feeding. 



By the above figures it is learned that the brain and shorts steers re- 

 quired 9.79 pounds of grain to gain one pound in weight, and the barley 

 steers required 8.6 pounds of grain to gain one pound in weight while up- 

 on the same feed. 



BRAN AND SHORTS VERSUS BARLEY. 



At the cl'ose of the four weeks' preliminary feeding a twelve weeks' test 

 of ground barley against bran and shorts was begun. During the time 

 of this test tihe bran and shorts were mixed in tihe proportion of two parts 

 shorts to one part of bran by weight and to each ten pounds of the mix- 

 ture a pound of oil meal was added. Oil meal was also added to the 

 ground barley at the above rate, viz., one pound of oil meal to ten pounds 

 of ground barley. 



The bran and shorts fed steers gained an average of a little over a 

 pound and a third per day. They ate an average of 14 1^3 pounds of 

 grain a day. The barley fed steers gained an average of nearly a pound 



