60 BEEF PRODUCTION 



With broken ear corn, gluten meal, oil meal and 

 clover hay : 

 Average daily gain per steer in pounds (186 days) . . 2.33 



Pounds pork per steer made by hogs following 74.13 



Pounds gain on steers per bushel corn fed 7.92 



Pounds gain on steers and pigs per bushel corn fed. 9.06 



Net cost of 1 pound gain on steers $.067 



Cost per cwt. of feeders in feed lot $4.53 



Value per cwt. when marketed $6.15 



Net profit per steer, corn 35c, clover hay $8 per ton, 



Gains in pork credited at $5 per cwt 9.75 



Net profit per steer, corn 40c, clover hay $10.00 — 5.36 



By referring to the table it will be seen that the steers 

 getting the oil meal and gluten meal made larger daily 

 gains throughout the feeding period than did those that 

 received only broken ear corn and clover hay. This 

 result usually follows such practice because the supple- 

 menting of corn with a palatable nitrogenous concentrate 

 undoubtedly stimulates the appetite and increases the 

 capacity of the animal for consuming to advantage large 

 quantities of concentrates. This system of feeding is to 

 be recommended, therefore, where the securing of a 

 quick finish is of more consequence than the somewhat 

 increased cost of the gains. 



GAINS MADE BY HOGS 

 It has frequently been stated that better gains are 

 secured on hogs following steers fed on corn supplemented 

 with oil meal than where it is not so supplemented. 

 It is possible that in the above statement reference was 

 made to the cattle not fed a nitrogenous roughage such 

 as clover hay. This test at any rate points to the con- 

 clusion that where corn is supplemented with both 

 a nitrogenous concentrate and a nitrogenous roughage 

 the hogs make smaller gains than where supplemented 

 with clover hay only. This is as it should be, for if it 

 is true, as is pretty clearly shown by a comparison of the 

 pounds of beef made per bushel of corn fed, that the 

 supplementing of corn with the concentrated feeds used 



