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steers weighed on the market 124 pounds more pei head 
than the barley fed. 
This result was unexpected when the feeding began, tor 
barley fed to pigs had given almost as good results as corn. 
When fed to sheep, barley showed but a slight inferiority to 
corn. The barley-fed steers began to show soon after they 
were put onto the feed that they were not doing so well as 
those having corn. 1 hey ate their feed up clean, and with 
a fairly good appetite, but always looked worse than their 
neighbors fed on corn. 
Corn versus Wheat and Beets. The feeding of 1894-95 
indicated that wheat and corn were about equal in feeding 
value, pound for pound. It was fair to presume, then, that, 
if beets were added to the wheat, the two together would 
prove superior to corn. This expectation was not realized. 
The winter of 1895-96 was favorable to the feeding of beets 
as there was but little severely cold weather. \et, the 
wheat and beets produced only eight pounds more growth 
per head than the corn. I he growth was soft and shrank 
considerably in shipping, so that, if judged by the market 
weights, the corn-fed steers gained 27 pounds each more 
than those having wheat and beets. . 
The beets took the place of part of the hay ; the wheat 
and beet steers eating 419 pounds less of hay and 2,060 
pounds more of beets. Since the hay and beets have an 
equal commercial value, the balance of the beets, 1,641 
pounds, was wasted. 
Barley versus Barley and Beets— The preceeding com¬ 
parison shows that the addition of beets to the wheat ration 
was w ithout advantage. 1 he opposite results appear, when 
a comparison is made, between the steers getting barley 
alone and those getting barley and beets. The one ate 450 
pounds more hay and the other 1,646 pounds more of beets. 
To offset this thousand pounds of beets extra, the steers 
getting the beets grew nearly twice as fast as those getting 
barley alone, gaining 141 pounds per head, while the barley 
fed steers are gaining 76 pounds. Just as those having 
wheat and beets shrink more in shipping than the corn-fed 
steers, so the barley and beet steers shrink more than those 
on barley alone. On the market the steers having barley 
and beets gained 75 pounds each above their December 19 
weight, while the steers eating barley alone gained only 36 
pounds. 
The steers on barley and beets grow nearly as fast as 
those on corn, but lose much of this gain in shipping, leav¬ 
ing the corn far ahead. 
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