COMPARISON OF ROUGHAGES FOR FATTENING STEERS. 11 
weighed each 28 days and were again weighed individually at the 
end of the experiment. 
All three lots were fed in a large barn, but the feeding pens were 
so arranged as to give the cattle the run of lots outside the barn. 
Water troughs were in each pen, and a deep well furnished fresh . 
water at all times. The feeds were placed in stationary feed troughs, 
the cottonseed meal being thoroughly mixed with the roughage at the 
time of feeding. The steers were fed all the roughage they would 
eat up clean within one hour after feeding. The feeding was done 
at 7 a. m. and 3.30 p.m. each day. Rock salt was kept in the feed 
troughs at all times. 
Enough bedding, consisting of shavings, waste straw, and corn- 
stalks, was used during the first six weeks to keep the animals very 
comfortable. After that time bedding was scarce, and the prairie 
roads were in such condition that it could not be obtained; as 
a result the pens became very muddy. Some rotten’ limerock 
was placed around the feed and water troughs to make a firm 
standing place but the urine caused the rock to disintegrate in a few 
days, leaving the pens in worse condition than before. Although 
some manure was taken out, all the pens remained deep in mud 
until the close of the experiment. The relatively small daily gains 
made by all the steers can be attributed largely to the condition of 
the pens and the absence of open lots. There were 25 steers in Lot 
1 and 26 in each of the other two lots. 
AVERAGE DAILY RATIONS. 
The object of the work being to compare the roughage rations, the 
steers of all three lots were fed the same amount of cottonseed meal 
per head per day throughout the experiment. Table 4 shows the av- 
erage daily ration of the steers of each lot by 28-day periods. 
Taste 4.—Average daily ration per head by 28-day periods. (Nov. 13, 1914 to 
April 5, 1915—148 days.) 
Lot | Number First | Second | Third | Fourth | Filth | Entire 
ati : 2 
No. | of steers. Ration. period. | period. | period. | period. Gane), Hears). 
Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. 
1 gr Cottonseed meal........ Aaa 5. 5 5.9 6.5 6.7 5. 90 
? \\ Cottonseed hulls........ 25. 2 22. 2 25. 6 24,9 2352 24. 12 
) og, \fCottonseed meal.....-.. 4.7 5.5 5.9 6.5 6.7 5. 90 
7 (Gorn silage: slay. esse. 38. 1 42. 2 45. 2 43.5 3.5 42. 89 
JGottonseed meal 4, 8 5.5 5.9 6.5 (0), 17/ 5. 90 
26 |4Cottonseed hulls........ 10.7 11.4 12.6 Me 11.9 11. 68 
SIT BAG coe as ceaee 26. 4 26. 6 29. 4 21.6 | 29. 2 27.98 
“ach steer was fed an average of about 4% pounds of cottonseed 
meal per day during the first 28-day period. The amount was gradu- 
