Experiments in feeding Steers at the Col¬ 
lege farm. 
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During the winter of 1894-95, several experiments in 
steer feeding were carried out on the College larm. d hey 
included tests of different classes of steers and of various 
kinds or combinations of feeds. 
Eighteen steers were fed, comprising three groups of 
six each, l'he first group consisted of six grade Durham 
steers, four years old that had been raised on a farm as 
skim-milk calves. They had been well led and wintered, 
making large framed, well formed steers, of about 1,300 
pounds weight. They were taken off good alfalfa stubble 
when bought and were in fair condition, but not at all fat. 
They were brought to the farm November 15th. 
On December 6, six grade Polled Angus steers were 
purchased. They were late summer calves of the year 
before ; being thus seventeen months old and averaged 
about 700 pounds, varying from 660 to 760 pounds. They had 
been hay fed during the winter and had been brought from 
the summer range to alfalfa stubble about the middle of 
November. A week later six more steers were purchased, 
being of the same general breeding and care as the first lot 
of four-year-olds, but two of them were nineteen months 
old and the other four, thirty-one months old. The year¬ 
lings weighed about 830 pounds, and the two-year-olds a 
little over i,cco pounds each. These were also brought off 
alfalfa stubble. The eighteen steers, therefore, consisted 
of six four-year-olds, four two-year-olds, and eight year¬ 
lings. 
The six four-year-old steers were fed cut alfalfa hay 
and cut corn stalks for the first twenty days, with the 
exception of two days on whole oat hay, which they did not 
like, and two days on whole alfalfa, which they ate fairly 
well. This same oat hay was afterwards cut up and fed to 
them and they ate it rather under protest. During the first 
thirty days they ate : 
Alfalfa fed.5,267 ibs., or 29 lbs. per head per day. 
Corn stalks fed, 1,325 lbs., or 8 lbs. per head per day. 
Total fed. .6,592 lbs., or 37 lbs. per head per day. 
Refuse .... 617 lbs. 
Total eaten,5,975 lbs., or 33 lbs. per head per day. 
