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This'thirty-three pounds eaten per head per day con¬ 
sisted of about twenty-seven pounds of alfalfa and six 
pounds of corn stalks. Of this feed the steers gained about 
a pound per head per day. 
The black steers were put at once on cut alfalfa and in 
the nine days from December 6, to 13, they ate 945 pounds, 
or seventeen pounds per day per head. 
When the third lot of steers came, December 15, all 
three lots were put on the same cut alfalfa, and in the four 
days from then until December 19 they ate as follows : 
FEEDING RECORD, DECEMBER 15 - 19 . 
Average Age, 
Years. 
Avera ge 
Weight, 
lbs. 
Alfalfa Hay 
Eaten, 
lbs. 
Hay per Head 
per day. 
lbs. 
Four-year-olds. 
4.6 
3271 
764 
32 
Two-year-olds. 
2.3 
967 
5o4 
21 
Yearlings. 
1.4 
703 
465 
19 
Average. 
2.8 
981 
578 
24 
On December 19, the four-year-olds were changed to 
whole alfalfa hay instead of cut, the rest still having the 
cut hay, and all from the same lot of hay as before. 
FEEDING RECORD, DECEMBER 19-2/. 
Average 
Weight. 
Hay 
Eaten. 
Hay Eaten 
per Hoad per 
Day. 
Hay eaten per 
day per 1,000 
lbs. weight. 
Gain per head 
per day, Doc. 
12 to 27. 
Hay Eaten per 
Found of 
Growth. 
Four-year-olds . 
1289 
1749 
36 
27.8 
1.0 
36 
Two-year-olds.. 
984 
1044 
22 
22.4 
1.7 
13 
Yearlings. 
736 
934 
19 
25.8 
2.2 
9 
Average. 
1003 
1276 
26 
25.3 
1.6 
16 
It will be seen that the steers did not eat an amount of 
hay proportioned to either their size or their age. The 
large steers ate not only the largest quantity, but also the 
most for each 1,000 pounds of their weight ; while the year¬ 
lings, although eating the least per head per day, did not 
eat the least per i,ooo pounds weight. The amount of hay 
required to produce a pound of growth is almost exactly 
proportional to the age. While this exact proportion is 
not continued through the subsequent feeding, yet, in gen¬ 
eral, the oldest steers have required the most food for each 
pound of growth and the youngest steers the least. Atten¬ 
tion is especially called to the amount of hay per head per 
day. It is customary in Colorado to allow fifty pounds of 
hay per day per steer, and this is the amount thrown daily 
into the feed racks. Not nearly all of this is actually eaten 
