PREPARATION OF FEEDS 



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lot, $0,076; broken ear corn $0,067; cornmeal, $0,075; 

 corn and cob meal, $0,078; shock or fodder corn, $0,065; 

 and in the shelled corn lot, $0,075. Thus it will be 

 seen that the cost of a pound of gain is directly influenced 

 by the amount of labor that is expended in the prep- 

 aration of the corn for feeding. The net profit per 

 steer in feeding these cattle corn in its various forms and 

 at varying prices follows : 



Price of Feedc 



* — Indicates a less. 



The results of this experiment clearly indicate that 

 simple methods, or, in other words, cattle feeding prac- 

 tice involving but a small amount of labor requir.es con- 

 siderably smaller margins than do more complicated 

 methods involving a large labor element. 



The results of this experiment are so striking that it 

 appears that the grinding of corn for feeding choice 

 two-year-old steers during the winter season is not war- 

 ranted. 



The feeding of silage in moderate quantities is not 

 necessarily conducive to heavy shrinkage in shipping or 

 small percentages of dressed beef. The reader is cau- 

 tioned not to conclude that since the feeding of silage 

 was not followed with as large profits as the feeding of 

 several other rations, that it has no place in beef pro- 



