COMPARISON OF ROUGHAGES FOR FATTENING STEERS. 
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QUANTITY AND COST OF FEED REQUIRED TO MAKE 
100 POUNDS OF GAIN. 
The following table shows the amount and cost of feed required to 
make 100 pounds of gain for each lot: 
Table 6. — Quantity and cost of feed required to make 100 pounds of gain 
(Nov. 13, 19H, to Apr. 5, 1915—143 days). 
Lot 
No. 
Ration. 
Pounds 
of feed to 
make 100 
pounds 
of gain. 
Cost of 
100 
pounds 
of gain. 
("Cottonseed meal 
427 
1,749 
515 
3,745 
352 
697 
1,668 
» 
\Cottonseed hulls 
\ $10. 70 
/Cottonseed meal 
^ 
> 11.26 
[Cottonseed meal ». 
) 
3 
< Cottonseed hulls 
)■ 8.90 
[Corn silage 
J 
The steers which received a combination of cottonseed hulls and 
corn silage for their roughage utilized their feed better than the 
steers in either of the other lots, as a considerably smaller amount of 
cottonseed meal was required to make 100 pounds of gain. 
The following prices were charged for feeds in this test : 
Cottonseed meal, per ton $23. 50 
Cottonseed hulls, per ton 6.50 
Corn silage, per ton i 3.00 
The price of cottonseed meal was less than normal, as the meal 
was contracted for in the summer, when the price was low. The price 
of cottonseed hulls was relatively cheap for that year, while the 
price charged for corn silage was about as much as it was worth. 
It probably cost about $3 per ton to grow and prepare this silage 
for feeding. With a reasonably good season the silage would have 
been much higher in quality and probably would have cost somewhat 
less per ton, due to the increased tonnage per acre. With feeds at 
these prices the cost of 100 pounds of gain for the entire period was 
$10.70, $11.26, and $8.90 for Lots 1, 2, and 3, respectively. 
FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 
The steers which were used in this experiment had been bought in 
the fall, and put on a preliminary feed from October 8 to November 
12, at which time the experiment was started. The original cost of 
the steers, plus the cost of feed during the preliminary period, was 
divided by the initial weight of the steers to get the price per 100 
pounds. This amounted to an average price of $5.47 per hundred- 
weight for the entire bunch of steers. They are charged at that 
