12 FEEDING STEERS ON BEET PULP, AEFAEFA HAY AND CORN. 
tion of ground corn with the hay, provided the corn can be pur¬ 
chased at from 85 to 90 cents per hundred weight. 
7. With poor alfalfa hay at $5 per ton, sugar beet pulp is 
worth $1.50 per ton to combine with the hay for fattening mature 
steers. 
8. Fattening steers will gain approximately a pound a day 
more on a ration composed of alfalfa hay, ground corn and beet 
pulp than they will on a ration made up of alfalfa hay and ground 
corn or on a ration composed of alfalfa hay and sugar beet pulp, 
and they will gain almost one and a half pounds more eaeh day on 
the above ration than when fed alfalfa hay alone. 
