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tible materials. Rough fodder in any quantity is not 

 adapted to fattening bovines. With this exception, the 

 whole list of high-class cattle foods may be regarded as 

 available, and the selection will properly depend largely 

 upon prices and the local supply. In the northern states, 

 hays from the fine grasses and the legumes, silage, roots, 

 cereal grain mixtures, and such by-product feeding-stuffs 

 as offer digestible nutrients at the least cost will all 

 appeal to the experienced feeder. In the South, cotton- 

 seed by-products may, with economy, enter largely into 

 the ration. In the West, the fodders peculiar to that 

 region will be utilized, corn being the chief, and some- 

 times the only, grain that can be fed with economy. 



466. Suggested rations for fattening steers. — The 

 following may be regarded as good types of mixtures 

 for the full feeding of fattening steers weighing approxi- 

 mately 1,000 pounds each at the beginning of the feed- 

 ing period. They will supply about 16 poimds of digesti- 

 ble organic matter if their components are of average 

 quality and composition: 



!5 lbs. clover hay. ( 5 lbs. clover hay. 



16 lbs. corn silage. . cJ^^ ^^- ''®^* pulp. 



13 lbs. corn meal. 1 11 lbs. com meal. 



3 lbs. wheat bran. \ 2 lbs. cottonseed mieal. 



!10 lbs. com stover. f 8 lbs. com stover. 



20 lbs. mangels. 6^ 12.5 lbs. com meal. 



14.5 lbs. com meal. (20 lbs. brewers' grams, wet. 

 2 lbs. cottonseed meal. 



!8 lbs. mixed hay. ( 2 lbs. oat straw. 



12.5 lbs. com meal. _ ?75 lbs. beet pulp. 



3 lbs. wheat bran. ' J 10 lbs. beet molasses. 



2 lbs. oil meal or gluten feed. ' 4 lbs. gluten meal. 



{8 lbs. alfalfa hay. ( 5 lbs. alfalfa hay. 



12 lbs. com meal. ? 3 lbs. com stover. 



6 lbs. ground oats. \ 11 lbs. com meal. 



\ 6 lbs. ground barley. 



