SUGAR BEETS FOR FATTENING STEERS 
15 
SECOND TRIAL I907-I908 
This trial lasted 22 weeks. The steers were two-year-olds. Lot 1 
was fed 12 pounds of corn per head each day, wTile Lot 2 was fed 
6 pounds of corn and 30 pounds of sugar beets. 
FEED, GAIN, AND COST OF GAIN 
Lot 
No. 
in 
Total 
Gan 
Total Feed Lbs. 
Average 
Gan 
Per 
Head 
Pounds Feed Re¬ 
quired for 100 
Pounds of Gain 
Cost of 
Feed 
For 
Lot 
Weight 
Corn 
Sugar 
Beets 
Alfalfa 
Hay 
Corn 
Sugar 
Beecs 
Alfalfa 
Hay 
100 lbs. 
Gain 
1 .... 
17 
4425 
28454 
52653 
260 
643 
1190 
$9 41 
2 . ... 
17 
4655 
15375 
69931 
46560 
259 
330 
1502 
1000 
9 55 
Note—Corn at $1.00 per cwt.. Beets at $5.00 per ton, Alfalfa Hay at $5.00 per ton. 
The two lots of steers made equal gains. 1502 pounds of sugar 
beets replaced 313 pounds of corn and 190 pounds of hay in the 
production of 100 pounds gain, or 4^4 pounds of sugar beets replaced 
one pound of corn and 54 pound of hay. Figuring prices of feeds 
the same as in the previous trial, the sugar beet ration cost $9-55 
for every hundred pounds of gain produced, while the corn ration 
cost $9.41. The greater cost in comparison with the former trial is 
undoubtedly due to the greater age of the steers. 
This trial is so closely in accord with the previous trial with 
regard to the amount of beets necessary to replace half the corn 
ration, that we may state with reasonable certainty, that sugar beets 
when fed with a half ration of corn, have a feeding value of about 
one-fifth that of corn; it will take from 4J/2 to 5 pounds of sugar 
beets to give the results produced by one pound of corn. 
The steers used in the second experiment were priced by Mr. 
Henry Gebhardt, of Denver, without a knowledge as to the manner 
in which they had been fed. He valued the steers fed on sugar 
beets and corn at 10 cents per hundred weight less than the steers 
fed corn, so that the finish of the steers in one lot was not much 
different from that in the other. 
