FATTENING STEERS ON VELVET BEANS 17 
Table 12. — Summary of feed consumed, gains, costs, 1 and marketing data (1919) 
Item 
Lotl: 
Cotton- 
seed meal 
Lot 2: 
Cotton- 
seed meal 
and 
shelled 
corn 
Lot 3: 
Soaked 
velvet 
beans and 
shelled 
corn 
Lot 4: 
Soaked 
velvet 
beans and 
cotton- 
seed meal 
Number of steers 
Days 
Average daily ration: 
Cottonseed meal pounds. 
Shelled corn do... 
Velvet beans do... 
Corn silage do... 
Wheat straw do... 
Total feed consumed per steer: 
Cottonseed meal do... 
Shelled corn do... 
Velvet beans do... 
Corn silage do... 
Wheat straw do... 
Feed consumed per 100 pounds gain: 
Cottonseed meal do... 
Shelled corn do... 
Velvet beans do... 
Corn silage ..do... 
Wheat straw . do... 
Initial weight per steer do... 
Final weight per steer do... 
Total gain per steer do... 
Daily gain per steer do... 
Cost of feed per steer dollars. 
Cost of gain per 100 pounds do... 
Initial value per 100 pounds do... 
Necessary selling price do... 
Actual selling price do... 
Loss per steer, excluding pork do... 
Loss per steer, including pork 2 do... 
Pork produced per steer. pounds. 
Shrinkage to slaughterhouse do... 
Dressing percentage per cent- 
Price received per ton for silage dollars. 
10 
126 
5.0 
10 
L26 
2.9 
7.4 
10 
126 
1.1 
41.1 
1.7 
629 
30.7 
1.7 
934 
7.4 
(5.2 
25.3 
1.7 
8.6 
28.2 
1.7 
142 
5,183 
219 
3,863 
213 
120 
304 
934 
782 
3,183 
218 
1,090 
3,553 
214 
53 
1,745 
74 
726 
1,023 
297 
2.36 
48.00 
16.16 
13.80 
14.49 
14.24 
2.53 
2.29 
1.4 
68 
57.6 
9.02 
1,258 
70 
735 
1,042 
307 
2.44 
57.10 
18.60 
13.80 
15.21 
14.42 
8.31 
4.64 
21.6 
72 
57.1 
5.70 
304 
255 
1,037 
71 
732 
1,039 
307 
2.44 
55.13 
17.96 
13.80 
15.03 
14.57 
4.74 
.95 
22.3 
63 
57.8 
7.02 
408 
1,331 
80 
732 
999 
267 
2.12 
42.66 
15.98 
13.80 
14.38 
14.04 
3.45 
2.18 
7.5 
62 
56.6 
8.06 
1 Cost of feeds used: Cottonseed meal, $65 per ton; corn silage, $10 per ton; wheat straw, $14 per ton; 
salt, $20 per ton; soaked velvet beans, $34.25 per ton; shelled corn, $1.45 per bushel. 
2 Pork produced valued at $17 per 100 pounds, live weight. 
Table 13. — Weights of live steers, carcasses, and parts of the offal 
; Live 
I weight 
Dressed 
weight x 
Heads 
Hearts 
Livers 
Lungs 
Tongues 
Hides 
Ruffle, 
caul, 
and 
paunch 
fat 
Lot 1 
Lot 2 
Lot 3 
Pounds 
.. 9,550 
J 9,700 
J 9,765 
Pounds 
5, 502. 7 
5, 537. 
5, 644. 8 
5, 310. 9 
Pounds 
208. 25 
190. 25 
194. 75 
195. 25 
Pounds 
36.00 
38.25 
40.75 
36.00 
Pounds 
111.25 
114.00 
115. 50 
Pounds 
99.50 
101. 25 
100.50 
Pounds 
62.75 
60.25 
62.00 
61. 25 
Pounds 
692 
702 
721 
666 
Pounds 
335 
340 
435 
Lot 4 
J 9,375 
113.50 97.25 
310 
Total 
Per cent of live weight 
J 38,390 
21, 995. 4 
57.29 
788.50 
2.05 
151.00 
0.39 
454.25 
1.18 
398. 50 
1.04 
246. 25 
0.64 
2,781 
7.25 
1,420 
3.70 
1 The dressed weights given here were obtained by deducting 2 per cent from the warm weights of the 
carcasses. 
THE EXPERIMENTS AT McNEILL, MISS. 
The purpose of these experiments (1920-1922) was: 
To compare whole dry velvet beans with whole soaked velvet 
beans for fattening steers. 
To determine the relative value of cottonseed meal and velvet 
beans when fed with silage for fattening steers. 
To determine the advantage of supplementing velvet beans and 
sorghum silage with cottonseed meal for fattening steers. 
