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BEEF PRODUCTION 



Corn stover may be used to the best advantage when 

 fed to stock cattle, sheep, or horses. It is not a desir- 

 able feed for beef production, especially when fed in 

 connection with corn, which is a highly carbonaceous 

 ration in itself. It may be advantageously used to 

 supplement an inadequate supply of better roughage, 

 such as clover or alfalfa hay. 



CHAFFING HAY AND MINGLING WITH GRAIN 



It is held by some cattle feeders that by cutting the 

 hay into short lengths and mixing it with the grain, more 

 thorough mastication and digestion are secured with 

 less liability of digestive derangements and more eco- 

 nomical use of feed. Experiments, however, do not 

 sustain this theory. At the Illinois Experiment Station 

 four lots of choice 1000-lb. feeders of fifteen head in 

 each lot were fed six months in a dry feed lot from 

 December to June as follows: 



Lot 4, cornmeal, linseed oil meal, gluten meal, and 

 clover hay. 



Lot 5, cornmeal, linseed oil meal, gluten meal, and 

 chaffed clover hay mingled with the grain. 



Lot 6, corn and cob meal, gluten meal, oil meal, and 

 clover hay. 



Lot 7, corn and cob meal, gluten meal, oil meal, and 

 chaffed clover hay mingled with the grain. 



The chaffing of the clover hay was done by running 

 it through an ensilage cutter. The actual cost of chaff- 

 ing was $1.00 per ton, which included labor, and wear 

 and depreciation of machinery. The results are sum- 

 marized as follows: 



