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Feeds and Feeding. 



524. Soft corn. — Kennedy and Rutherford of the Iowa Station/ 

 studying the feeding value of soft corn with 2 lots of 8 steers each, 

 fed for 6 months, found that soft corn containing 35 per ct. of mois- 

 ture at the beginning of the trial and 16 per ct. at its close made 

 rather more economical gains than mature corn, taking dry matter 

 as the basis, and that the cattle finished equally well on it. (154) 



525. Gain by hogs from droppings. — ]\Iumf ord of the Illinois Sta- 

 tion^ found that hogs placed behind steers fattening on corn supple- 

 mented with oil meal or gluten meal made the following gains wholly 

 from the droppings of the steers: 



Gain hy hogs living on the droppings of steers variously fed. 



♦Computed on basis of ear corn in silage and shock corn. 

 +Gain by hogs valued at $5 per 100 lbs. 



It is seen that where shelled corn was fed, the 7 hogs following 

 each 10 steers made a total gain of 112 lbs, from the droppings of 

 each steer. From each 100 lbs, of corn fed to the steers the hogs 

 gained 3.6 lbs., returning 16.7 per ct. of the value of the corn given 

 to the steers. Where ground corn was fed, the hogs made but 21 lbs. 

 of gain per steer and returned but 0.7 lb. increase for 100 lbs. of corn 

 fed to the steers. Corn-and-cob meal made still poorer returns, and 

 silage corn returned practically nothing. (506) 



526. Low-grade wheat. — At the North Dakota Station^ Shepperd 

 and Richards fed 2 lots, each of 11 two-yr.-old steers of fair quality 

 and averaging 1,035 lbs., for a period of 112 days. One lot re- 

 ceived rejected wheat, while the other was given corn, poor hay 

 forming the roughage in both rations. 



The table shows that the steers required about twice as much 

 ground low-grade wheat as ground corn for 100 lbs. gain. After the 

 trial was closed, both lots were fed corn and bran 7 weeks longer, 

 during which time the wheat-fed steers made the very large gain of 

 3.1 lbs. daily, due possibly to greater growth made in the first period. 



Bui. 75. 



Bui. 103. 



Bui. 73. 



