Feed and Management of Fattening Cattle. 



395 



near the latter hour as possible, since they always look better just 

 after they have been fed and watered." 



Funkhouser> advises feeding all the hay the cattle will eat, 

 and reducing the grain fed at least one-half two or three days be- 

 fore shipping. For steers in transit allow 250 pounds of hay and 

 one and one-half bushels of grain per car. Steers on pasture that 

 have had corn should be taken off pasture twenty-four hours be- 

 fore shipping, and allowed half a feed of com with plenty of hay. 



II. Rations for Fattening Steers. 

 607. Theoretical rations for fattening steers. — To show the 

 amount of feed a steer should receive according to the Wolff- Leh- 

 mann standard, two rations are presented which are reasonably 

 close to the requirements. In the first, com is the leading con- 

 centrate, with oU meal additional to famish the protein; in the 

 second, silage famishes the roughage, with bran, com and cob 

 meal and cotton-seed meal for the concentrates. See Chapter 

 Vn, Part n. 



Rations compounded in accordance with tlie Wolff-Lehmann feeding 

 standard for steers weighing 1,000 pounds, first period. 



Dry 



matter. 



Digestible nutrients. 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates. 



Ether 

 extract. 



Ration No. 1. 

 Wolff-Lehmann standard.. 



Lbs. 

 30 



Lbs. 

 2.50 



Lbs. 

 15.00 



Lbs. 

 .50 



Corn fodder, 8 pounds 



Clover hay, 2 pounds 



Dent com, 14 pounds 



Oil meal, O. P., 4 pounds.. 



4.62 



1.69 



12.52 



3.63 



.20 



.13 



1.09 



1.17 



2.77 



.72 



9.34 



1.31 



.03 

 .03 



.60 

 .28 



Total., 



22.46 



2.59 



14.14 



.94 



Ration No. S. 



Com silage, 30 pounds 



Oat straw, 5 pounds 



Roller bran, 10 pounds 



Com and cob meal, 4 pounds.. 

 Cotton-seed meal, 2 pounds.... 



6.27 

 4.54 

 8.81 

 3.40 

 1.84 



.27 

 .06 

 1.22 

 .18 

 .74 



3.39 

 1.93 

 3.92 

 2.40 

 .38 



.21 

 .04 

 .27 

 .12 

 .24 



Total., 



24.86 



2.47 



12.02 



' Breeder's Gazette, Chicago, Jan. 18, 1893. 



