272 PRODUCTIVE FEEDING OF FARM ANIMALS 
before July, they should not be put on grass at all the second sea- 
son, as the shrink that occurs during the first few weeks on grass 
would reduce their weight. 
Two-year-olds are often also carried over to fall by feeding 
fodder corn (corn with ears) after the ears have hardened and 
when the fodder is ready to be shocked. The feeding of the corn is 
continued for about three months until toward December, when 
the steers will be sufficiently fat for the market. This method of 
feeding furnishes an excellent and cheap combination of grain and 
roughage well suited for fattening cattle. More liberal gains and 
marketing at an earlier date may be secured by feeding, in addition 
to fodder corn, bran and linseed meal in the proportion of 3 to 1, 
Fig. 67.—Fattening steers in California. (Pacific Rural Press.) 
giving about four pounds of the mixture a day per steer. Gluten feed 
or cotton-seed meal may also be fed to advantage in the place of 
linseed meal, if the market price is in favor of either of these feeds. 
Hogs Following Steers.—It is a common practice to keep hogs 
with the steers in feeding fattening steers, especially in the corn 
belt. The hogs eat the undigested whole and broken corn in the 
droppings of the steers, and a waste of feed is thus prevented. The 
number of pigs per steer varies according to the kind of steers 
and the feed they are receiving; more pigs may be put with older 
steers than with yearlings, and more when corn is fed whole or 
cracked than when corn meal is fed. Waters states?® that two or 
three pigs per steer are kept when these are fed snapped corn; one 
20 Missouri Bulletin 76. 
