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result would be attended by an immense increase in 

 the net returns from the corn crop. The annual stover 

 crop would then represent a valuation to the farmers 

 of something more than a quarter of a billion dollars. 

 No farmer would willfully permit the waste of his tim- 



FATTENING STEERS 



Comparison of timothy with equal parts stover and clover hay 

 for steers on full feed. 



1899, two-year-old steers, 119 days, four steers in each lot, full 

 feed of shelled corn. 



Corn eaten, bushels 



Ruugtiness eaten, lbs 



Total pain, lbs 



Averagre daily gain, Ib-^ 



Grain jier lb train, lbs 



Gain per bnslii'l rif corn 



a Clover hay. b Corn stover. 



Corn , clover 

 hay and 

 com stover 



185 

 al,62C 

 31,889 

 817 

 1.94 

 11.29 

 4.96 



1900, two-year-old steers, los days, four steers in each lot, full 

 feed of corn. 



Corn and- 

 timothy liiiy 



Corn,clover 

 hay and 

 corn stovex 



Corn eaten, biishels 



lio ugliness eaten, lbs .....' . 



Ti il al gain , lbs 



Average daily ^ain, lbs ^^ 



(frain per lb gain, lbs 



Gitin perbnsliel of corn 



a Clover hay. & Corn stover. 



157 

 i,540 



789 

 1.97 

 11.19 

 6.00 



176 



a2,475 



6 868 

 1,140 

 2.85 

 8.30 

 6.74 



othy crop after it had been grown and required only 

 to be harvested to be available as a feed. There is in 

 the light of the results of the foregoing experiments 

 quite as little justification for the waste of his stover. 



