382 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 



In the foregoing table is given a complete summary showing 

 the average of each steer in the various lots. This table contains 

 very complete data covering the various points of comparison in 

 the results obtained with the average steer in each lot. 

 The conclusions drawn are thus stated: 



1. An average feeder steer two years old will make a gain of 

 1.5 Ibs. per day on alfalfa hay alone, and will require approxi- 

 mately 28 Ibs. of hay to make one pound of gain. 



2. The addition of ground corn to the ration of alfalfa hay 

 will increase the daily gain, increase the market price of the steer 

 by finishing him better in a given time, and will add to the profits 

 if the corn can be procured below 90 cents per hundred pounds. 



3. A pound of ground corn is equal in feeding value to 2.8 

 Ibs. of alfalfa hay and to 9 pounds of sugar beet pulp for feed- 

 ing two-year-old fattening steers. 



4. Sugar beet pulp at present prices is a cheaper and better 

 feed than ground corn when fed with alfalfa hay for fattening 

 mature steers. 



5. That 3.22 of beet pulp is equivalent in feeding value to 

 one pound of alfalfa hay, when fed in conjunction with the hay, 

 giving two-year-old steers all they will eat of both feeds. 



6. With alfalfa hay at $5 a ton, it will pay to feed a light 

 ration of ground corn with the hay, provided the corn can be 

 purchased at from 85 to 90 cents per hundred weight. 



7. With poor alfalfa hay at $5 per ton, sugar beet pulp is 

 worth $1.50 per ton to combine with hay for fattening mature 

 steers. 



8. Fattening steers will gain approximately a pound a day 

 more on a ration compose-d of alfalfa hay, ground corn and beet 

 pulp than they will on a ration made up of alfalfa hay and 

 ground corn or on a ration composed of alfalfa hay and sugar 

 beet pulp, and they will gain almost one and a half pounds more 

 each day on the above ration than when fed alfalfa hay alone. 



Experiments in Kansas. Showing how alfalfa 

 hay in the ration cheapens the cost of beef produc- 

 tion, we quote from Bulletin 132 of the Kansas ex- 

 periment station, relative to work done at the Fort 

 Hays branch station : 



A matter of this experiment of considerable interest, especially 

 to the western farmer, is the part that the various roughages play 

 in beef production. A ration of alfalfa hay, at $4.00 per ton. 



