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scale and in such a careful manner that the results of it 

 are more dependable than opinions or beliefs. The 

 great importance of the data in the last column of the 

 table should not be lost sight of. In sections of the 

 country where beef production is a leading enterprise 

 the hog is looked upon as an economic factor and there- 

 fore practically indispensable. The amount of gain 

 that is made by hogs following steers variously fed is 

 therefore one of the deciding factors as to the form 

 in which corn may be most profitably fed to cattle. 

 By referring to the table it will be noted that the most 

 beef and pork combined was made where corn was fed 

 in the form of broken ear corn, shelled corn coming next, 

 with cornmeal third. The slight difference between 

 the final results with cornmeal and corn and cob meal 

 leads the writer to believe that they are practically 

 equal in feeding value — that is to say, when cattle are 

 handled as these were with plenty of good roughage 

 and the corn supplemented with some nitrogenous 

 concentrate, a bushel of ear corn (70 pounds), fourteen 

 pounds of which is cob, when ground into corn and cob 

 meal is not materially more valuable for cattle feeding 

 than fifty-six pounds of cornmeal. 



The experienced cattle feeder knows that simply 

 the statement that one ration will produce more beef or 

 more combined beef and pork than another does not 

 necessarily decide that its use will be followed with 

 greater profit. The question of cost of preparing and 

 feeding the same must be taken into account. This 

 will be considered next. 



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In the experiment referred to the feeds used were 

 prepared at the University cattle feeding plant. Both 

 the corn and the corn and cob meal were finely ground. 

 The shock (fodder) corn and silage used were grown in 

 the same field on the University farm, and the plots 

 reserved for use were selected with the greatest care, that 



