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Wheat and Beets vers its Barley and Beets. — The 
amounts of grain and beets are nearly the same, but the 
wheat and beets give considerable more growth than the 
barley and beets. Just as barley alone shrinks more than 
corn alone, so barley and beets shrink more than wheat 
and beets. In both cases the barley does not seem to 
make as hard flesh and fat.as the corn or wheat. Judged 
by the weights on the market, the wheat and beets 
have made almost double the gain in live weight of the 
barley and beets. 
Relative Consumption oj Hay and Grain: —When the 
steers were eating hay alone they ate 34 pounds of hay 
per day per head. When grain was added to their 
rations, they ate less of the hay. From January 8 to 
April 6, while eating on the average nine pounds of grain, 
they ate 28 pounds of hay. A pound of grain has 
nearly as much feeding value as two pounds of hay; 
but instead of the hay eaten falling off two pounds for 
each pound of grain eaten, it does not decrease even 
so much as the weight of the grain. It is evident 
that when given grain the steers consume each day 
more actual nourishment than when on hay alone, and 
to this extra feed is probably due much of the extra 
growth made at this time. 
Shrinkage in Shipping: —The steers were weighed at 
Fort Collins about five o’clock the afternoon of April 6 
and at once shipped to Denver, reaching there the 
morning of April 7. They were watered and given a 
little time to eat hay before selling. They were con¬ 
signed to Clay, Robinson & Company, and by them sold 
to the Colorado Packing Company, the same firm that 
had bought our steers a year ago. The price obtained 
was $3,625 per hundred pounds, being the highest price 
paid in the Denver market for steers during the season 
of 1895-96. Through the courtesy of these gentlemen, we 
were able to get the individual weights of the animals 
and judge of the amount of shrinkage that resulted from 
different methods of feeding. The water was shut off 
from the pens at noon of the day the steers were ship¬ 
ped, hence their farm weight represented them not at 
their fullest. 
Upon being weighed in Denver the steers that had 
received corn weighed eight pounds per head more than 
at Fort Collins. The steers fed on wheat and beets 
