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hog feed in the droppings should be determined upon 

 the basis of this supplementary corn fed and the form in 

 which it is fed, exclusive of that contained in the silage. 

 Some cattle feeders feed rather more corn to cattle than 

 they will clean up, throwing out the rejected portions 

 to the hogs. This method increases the number of hogs 

 that may profitably be run after cattle, but in the ex- 

 periments referred to the hogs following the cattle did 

 not have this advantage. In one experiment ten shoats 

 were found to be about the right number to follow 

 twenty-five steer calves fed on a light "wintering ration" 

 of shock corn, whole oats, and clover hay. These shoats 

 made a gain of 587 pounds in 88 days. During the 

 same season in another winter feeding experiment where 

 thirty-six two-year-olds and older steers were being fat- 

 tened for the market, during the time shelled corn was 

 fed, twenty-one hogs followed, and, when changed to meal 

 twelve hogs only were used. These steers were fed in 

 three lots, each lot getting a different ration. The hogs 

 following the twelve steers fed corn and clover hay 

 made 3.78 pounds per 100 pounds of shelled corn fed 

 and .616 of a pound per 100 pounds ground corn when 

 they were changed to a meal ration. The hogs in the lot 

 getting corn, corn stover, and timothy hay made 3.665 

 pounds gain per 100 pounds shelled corn fed the steers, 

 while they made only .594 of a pound gain per 100 

 pounds ground corn fed. The data illustrate two im- 

 portant facts; first, that the gains on hogs following 

 meal-fed steers are inconsiderable as compared with 

 similar gains where the steers are getting whole corn . 

 and second, that a nitrogenous roughage fed to the 

 steers seems to favor, if only to a slight degree, large 

 gains on hogs following steers so fed. 



The following table furnishes some valuable 

 data which were secured from records kept on the feed- 

 ing of 130 steers at the Illinois Experiment Station in 

 ten different lots : 



