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steer per day, increasing the corn at the rate of one 

 pound per steer per day until each steer receives ten 

 pounds of corn per day. This ration of corn should be 

 continued for three days and then another increase of one 

 pound made. From this point on an increase of one 

 pound per steer per day every third day will bring the 

 cattle up to seventeen pounds of corn each per day in 

 thirty days. By continuing this rate of increase for 

 fifteen days longer the steers will be getting twenty-two 

 pounds each per day. If oil meal or other nitrogenous 

 concentrates are used at the rate of about three pounds 

 per 1000-lb. steer per day, this ration will prove quite 

 satisfactory. When the cattle begin to get about twelve 

 to fifteen pounds of corn per steer per day they will 

 not require or relish as much roughage, and at the end of 

 thirty days should not be given to exceed twelve pounds 

 clover or alfalfa per 1000-lb. steer per day. As the feed- 

 ing period progresses the amount of roughage fed should 

 constitute about one-fourth of the ration by weight. 



