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narily could be purchased in the fall of the year for 

 $3.80 per hundredweight delivered in the feed lot and 

 would sell in the condition in which these were marketed 

 at from $5.35 to $5.65 per hundredweight on the 

 Chicago market. 



At the Missouri Experiment Station 157.5 bushels 

 of corn and 2540 pounds of timothy hay made a gain 

 of 789 pounds in 105 days on four steers, or an average 

 daily gain of 1.97 pounds. Each bushel of corn in this 

 case made a gain of 5 pounds. 



One hundred and seventy-six bushels of corn, 2475 

 pounds of clover, and 868 pounds of corn stover made a 

 gain of 1140 pounds in the same time, or an average 

 daily gain of 2.85 pounds. Here a bushel of corn aver- 

 aged to produce 6.74 pounds of gain in weight. 



One hundred and sixty-nine bushels of corn, 2967 

 pounds of clover, and 1139 pounds of wheat straw pro- 

 duced a total gain of 1073 pounds, or 2.68 pounds per 

 day. A bushel of corn made with this combination 6.08 

 pounds of gain. These results apply with even greater 

 force to calves than to yearlings and two-year-old cattle. 

 CORN STOVER 



In both composition and digestibility corn stover 

 closely resembles timothy hay, and the edible portion 

 of the stover has a nutritive value fully equal to that 

 of timothy. The Illinois Experiment Station (Bulletin 

 58) found the digestion co-efficients for the various 

 nutrients in corn stover to be as follows: dry matter, 

 58.2 per cent; ash, 22.5 per cent; protein, 37.4 per cent; 

 fat, 55.2 per cent; fiber, 70.3 per cent; carbohydrate 

 extract, 60.6 per cent. These are averages of results 

 obtained from feeding four steers for a period of ten 

 days. 



In the system of handling the corn crop practiced 

 throughout the corn-belt, namely, that of husking from 

 the stalk and using the stalk fields for pasturing cattle 

 in the winter, considerable of the feeding value of the 

 crop is wasted. 



