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recommended, since the profits from ear 

 corn were fully twice as great as those 

 from corn meal. The profits from the 

 use of shock corn were approximately 

 the same as those from ear corn, but 

 there are certain advantages in the use 

 of ear corn, since it has been harvested 

 and is more convenient to feed in 

 winter. 



It is obvious from this discussion that 

 the corn center is practically synony- 

 mous with the beef center. As shown by 

 Waters in Missouri, eleven prominent 

 corn states produced more than 75 per 

 cent of all the corn in the United States, 



was used was twice that on timothy hay 

 and the amount of grain required for 

 a pound of gain was about one-third 

 that on the timothy ration. This in- 

 dicates the desirability of using a ni- 

 trogenous ration with corn. Corn may 

 not only be fed in the various forms al- 

 ready mentioned, but as a soiling crop 

 it possesses enormous value. It is pos- 

 sible to select varieties and choose times 

 of planting so that a continuous crop 

 will be secured from the middle of June 

 until heavy frost. 



Among the many supplemental feeds 

 which may be used with corn, clover 



Fig. 263 FANCY SELECTED FEEDERS FROM ILLINOIS EXPERIMENT STATION 



and also 60 per cent of the cattle, milch 

 cows, horses, mules, hogs and sheep. 

 These are the states also which produce 

 the best finished steers and the finest 

 grade of horses. 



The most effective way of increasing 

 the already high feeding value of the 

 corn plant consists in supplementing 

 corn and corn stover with feeding stuffs 

 which are highly nitrogenous, and in us- 

 ing more generally the immense crop of 

 corn stover, much of which is now al- 

 lowed to go to waste. In a comparison 

 of cowpea hay with timothy hay as the 

 roughage in a corn ration in Missouri, 

 the average daily gain when cowpea hay 



hay has yielded excellent results in Illi- 

 nois. In the same set of experiments, 

 a ration of corn, timothy hay and corn 

 stover gave quite unsatisfactory results, 

 since the amount of protein in such a 

 ration was too small. The corn and 

 clover hay ration, however, possessed a 

 number of advantages, including ready 

 availability, the production of large 

 gains and fine quality of beef. 



In Nebraska, Burnett and Smith have 

 tested the value of linseed meal and al- 

 falfa hay as supplemental feeds with 

 corn. The cost of 100 pounds of gain 

 was $8.25 on corn and prairie hay; $7 

 on corn, sorghum and linseed meal; 



