IV. A COMPARISON OF SOME COMMON FARM-GROWN 
ROUGHAGES FOR FATTENING STEERS (EXPERIMENT 
OF 1916-17). 
INTRODUCTION. 
This test, conducted on the Canton Stock Farm at Canton, Miss., is 
a duplication of the work at the same station the previous year. As 
before, Mr. S. S. Jerdan had charge of the work, and the test was 
carried out under the same general conditions as the experiments 
of previous years. Owing to a lack of cowpea hay, it was not pos- 
sible to feed a lot of steers as Lot 4 had been fed in the winter of 
1915-16. 
OBJECT AND PLAN OF THE WORK. 
The objects were identical with those stated under Part III and 
serve to furnish a check or certification of the results obtained in 
the test of 1915-16. 
The test was planned to duplicate the work of the previous winter 
at the same station, with the omission of Lot 4 for the reason above 
stated. The steers were purchased in the fall, dehorned, carried two 
weeks on preliminary feed, then divided into three similar lots of 
20 each and fed as follows: Lot 1, cottonseed meal and sorghum 
silage; Lot 2, cottonseed meal, sorghum silage, and corn stover; Lot 
3, cottonseed meal, sorghum silage, and oat straw. 
CATTLE USED. 
Sixty head of steers were selected from various points in Madison 
County, Miss. They ranged from 2 to 4 years of age and were grade 
stock, showing Shorthorn, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus, Red Poll, 
and Devon breeding, while a trace of Jersey blood was evident in 
a few of them. At the beginning of the test they averaged 856 
pounds per head. They were a thrifty lot of steers and were larger 
and of better quality than the average in the State. 
CHARACTER AND PRICES OF FEEDS USED. 
The cottonseed meal used was clean and bright, analyzing about 
36 per cent crude protein. The sorghum silage was of fine quality, 
and very palatable to the cattle. The oat straw had been baled in the 
fall and put into the barn, so it was bright and of high quality. The 
corn stover also was very good. 
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