20 BULLETIN 810, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



3. With but few exceptions, a farmer or stockman (in the section 

 considered) who has a sufficient number of mature cattle or their 

 equivalent is justified in building a silo. 



4. After the farmer or stockman has his silo he may advantageously 

 buy a protein supplement. The quantity of cottonseed meal or 

 other protein-rich feed would perhaps be regulated by the kind of 

 roughage used with the silage. If a legume hay were used, the 

 cottonseed meal or other protein concentrate could be eliminated 

 entirely or at least reduced very materially in quantity. 



5. The addition of corn silage to the ration for wintering yearling 

 steers gave them an increased value of from $1.19 to $5.79 per head, 

 depending upon the ration used. 



6. As a general rule, where the farmer has silage and a roughage 

 in the form of straw or various kinds of hay and stover, it would 

 seem advisable to feed his yearling cattle (should he wish to winter 

 them and sell them from grass the next summer) a ration of silage, 

 a little cottonseed meal — not more than 1 to 1^ pounds — or other 

 such feed, and the roughage that he has available. 



7. The cost of wintering a yearling steer is approximately two- 

 thirds the cost of keeping the steer one year. The profit, therefore, 

 may be largely determined from the ration used and method of 

 wintering. 



8. The feeding methods used in wintering yearling steers added 

 from $1.40 to $2.85 per hundredweight to the spring value over the 

 value the preceding fall, depending upon the ration used. 



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