COMPARISON OF ROUGHAGES FOR FATTENING STEERS. 5 
CHARACTER AND PRICES OF FEEDS USED. 
The feeds were all of good quality. The cottonseed meal analyzed 
8 per cent ammonia, or about 41 per cent crude protein, and was 
bright in color. The corn silage was excellent and was made from 
corn which would have yielded about 35 to 40 bushels of corn per 
acre. 
The feeds were charged at the following prices : 
Cottonseed meal perton__ $27.50 
Cottonseed hulls pe*ton__ 9.50 
Corn silage per ton __ 3.25 
The price of cottonseed meal and hulls was the cost delivered to 
the barn. The cost of the silage was the estimated cost of production 
and ensiling, including the estimated waste which would occur in 
making and feeding it. 
METHODS OF FEEDING AND HANDLING THE STEERS. 
The steers of each of the three lots had an open, unpaved lot for 
exercise and were fed in troughs under sheds which were planked 
up on the north and west sides, but open on the other sides. They 
were furnished water from a 1,300-foot well, and concrete troughs 
equipped with float valves were located in the lots so that the steers 
had access to fresh water all the time. 
The steers were fed at 7 o'clock in the morning and 5 o'clock in 
the afternoon. The cottonseed meal was mixed with the roughage in 
the feed troughs at the time of feeding. The steers were given all 
the feed they would eat up clean within an hour after feeding. 
AVERAGE DAILY RATIONS. 
The steers of all three lots were fed the same amount of cottonseed 
meal each day, as this experiment was conducted for comparing 
roughages. The cottonseed meal was thoroughly mixed with the 
roughage at the time of feeding. 
Table 1 shows the average daily ration per steer by 28-day periods 
during the experiment: 
Table 1. — Average dally ration per head, by 28-day periods. 
Lot 
Number 
No. 
of steers. 
1 
20 
2 
20 
3 
20 
Ration. 
First 
Second 
Third 
period. 
period. 
period. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
5.0 
6.6 
7.2 
28.1 
29.8 
27.7 
5.0 
6.6 
7.2 
39.4 
45.3 
44.8 
5.0 
6.6 
7.2 
18.3 
19.3 
18.6 
17.4 
18.3 
17.7 
Entire 
period (84 
days). 
f Cottonseed meal 
\Cottonseed hulls 
/Cottonseed meal 
\Corn silage 
[Cottonseed meal 
^Cottonseed hulls 
(Corn silage 
Pounds. 
6.25 
28.46 
6.25 
43.10 
6.25 
18.76 
17.77 
