WINTER RATIONS OF YEARLING STEERS. 
Table 5. — Total and daily gains and losses during four winters — Continued. 
1915-16. 
Lot 
No. 
Number 
of 
Days. 
steers. 
10 
122 
10 
122 
10 
122 
Ration. 
Average 
Average 
Total 
initial 
final 
gain(+) 
weight 
weight 
or loss 
per 
per 
(-)per 
steer. 
steer. 
steer. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
678 
678 
00 
678 
758 
+ 80 
678 
671 
- 7 
Average 
daily- 
gain or 
loss per 
steer. 
10 
133 
10 
133 
10 
133 
10 
133 
Corn silage, mixed hay, and wheat straw. . 
Corn silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed 
meal 
Mixed hay and wheat straw 
1916 
Corn silage, mixed hay, and 
Corn silage, wheat straw, ar 
meal 
Mixed hay and wheat straw 
1917 
Corn silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed 
meal. . .". 
Mixed hay and wheat straw 
Corn silage and soy-bean hay 
Corn silage, rye hay, and cottonseed meal 
Pounds. 
00 
1916-17. 
1 
2 
10 
10 
10 
134 
134 
134 
Corn silage, mixed hay, and wheat straw. . 
Corn silage, wheat straw, and cottonseed 
meal 
690 
690 
689 
709 
742 
659 
+ 19 
+52 
-30 
+ -14 
+ .39 
3 
- .22 
1917-18. 
671 
711 
+40 
671 
615 
-56 
671 
698 
+27 
671 
682 
+11 
+ .30 
+ .421 
+ .203 
+ .083 
Table 5. shows that in 1914-15 the cattle in Lot 1 fed on silage, 
mixed hay, and straw lost an average of 23 pounds in 128 days during 
the winter, equal to a daily loss of 0.18 pound per steer. In 1915-16 
the lot fed the same ration neither lost nor gained weight during the 
122 winter days. In 1916-17 the lot fed the same ration gained an 
average of 19 pounds, equal to a daily gain of 0.14 pound per steer. 
Lot 2 in 1914-15, fed on silage, straw, and cottonseed meal, gained 
an average of 74 pounds in 128 days, equal to a daily gain per steer 
of 0.58 pound. The next year the corresponding lot gained 80 
Fig. 6.— Steers in Lot 4 at end of winter feeding, 1917-18. 
183544°— 20— Bull. 870 2 
