by the steers. I he racks are cleaned out each day and 
about ten pounds of the hay removed. While of the other 
tony pounds the steers cannot eat more than thirty pounds 
and the steers under consideration, though averaging just a 
thousand pounds live weight, ate only twenty-five pounds. 
1 he figures show that, under the ordinary method of feed- 
ing m Colorado, the steers waste from ten to fifteen pounds 
of hay per day per head, or from twenty to thirty tons for 
each hundred tons fed. 
In the tests given above, the steers were fed in deep, 
narrow boxes, that were cleaned out every day and the 
amount given as eaten is the difference between the amount 
ted and that weighed back, so that it includes whatever 
waste the steers made. The refuse hay taken out of the 
mangers each day was fed to bulls, cows, and horses, and 
all eaten readily. In fact it is better horse feed than whole 
hay. On December 27th, the steers were separated into 
six groups, one of each lot of steers being put into each 
group. 
The groups and feeds are given below : 
Feed per He^d per Day. 
5 lbs. cut fodder corn. 
15 lbs. cut alfalfa. 
Cut alfalfa ad. lib. 
1 5 lbs. cut fodder corn. 
1 15 lbs. cut alfalfa. 
, 6 lbs. cracked wheat. 
J 20 lbs. cut beets. 
5 lbs. cut fodder corn. 
15 lbs. cut alfalfa. 
Cut fodder corn ad lib. 
5 lbs. cut fodder corn. 
15 lbs. cut alfalfa. 
35 lbs. corn ensilage. 
5 lbs. cut fodder corn. 
15 lbs. cut alfalfa. 
30 lbs. cut beets. 
5 lbs. cut fodder corn. 
15 lbs. cut alfalfa. 
8 lbs. cracked wheat. 
Each steer was fed daily five pounds of cut fodder corn, 
ears and all cut into quarter-inch lengths, and also fifteen 
pounds of alfalfa cut into two-inch lengths. In addition to 
this, each steer in pen No. i had all the cut alfalfa it could 
eat, i. e., more was fed each day than the steers would eat and 
