WINTER RATIONS OF YEARLING STEERS. 
Table 2. — Composition of feeds used. 
Analyses (actual) as made at the 
"West Virginia Experiment Station. 
Analyses (average) as given in 
Henry's " Feeds and Feeding." 
Feeds. 
Protein. 
Carbo- 
hydrates, 
includ- 
ing fiber. 
Fat. 
Ash. 
Pro- 
tein. 
Carbo- 
hydrates, 
includ- 
ing fiber. 
Fat. 
Ash. 
Per ct. 
1.86 
6.60 
2.86 
5.79 
10. 00 
37.58 
Per ct. 
21.52 
79.49 
84.11 
79.82 
68. CO 
Per ct. 
0.53 
1.90 
1.38 
1.19 
3.02 
Per ct. 
1.13 
3.74 
3.21 
4.75 
9.08 
6.05 
Per ct. 
2.1 
8.6 
3.1 
6.7 
16.0 
37.6 
Per ct. 
21.7 
70.7 
81.8 
78.0 
64.0 
39.9 
Per ct. 
0.8 
2.4 
1.5 
2.1 
2.8 
8.2 
Per ct. 
1.7 
6.1 
5.2 
5.1 
8.6 
Cottonseed meal (good) 
40.34 
8.29 
6.4 
From the analyses it is evident that the feeds used, with the excep- 
tion of cottonseed meal, were somewhat below the average in quality. 
The cottonseed meal used was of 41 per cent protein the first year 
and of 36 per cent protein the last three years. The silage was made 
from a mixture of dent and silage corn. 
Fig. 4.— Steers in Lot 2 at end of winter feeding, 1917-18. 
A three-year rotation of crops, consisting of corn, wheat, and hay, 
is practiced pretty generally in the section under discussion. Timo- 
thy is sown with the wheat in the fall, and clover is sown on the 
same field in the spring. This provides in the year following the 
wheat crop a mixed hay of timothy and clover. The mixed hay 
used in this work was obtained in this manner. 
In making soy-bean hay the ground is prepared about the same as 
it would be for corn. The beans are drilled broadcast, using l\ 
bushels per acre. They are usually sown the last of May or the first 
of June, after all danger of heavy frost is past. When the beans begin 
to form in the pods, about the first of September, the time varying 
with the variety of beans and the kind of season, the crop is cut and 
cured for hav. 
