STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
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Shorthorn and Hereford blood predominating, and were below the 
average in quality. They were two years of age with one or two 
in each lot probably three years past. When the experiment was 
started on December 30, these steers averaged in weight between 
950 and 960 pounds. They were divided as evenly as possible into 
four lots of twelve each, care being taken to have an equal number 
of promising and unpromising feeders in each lot. . They were con¬ 
fined in four small corrals in close proximity to the Fort Collins 
sugar factory, water being provided in a large trough, a portion of 
which projected into each corral. The fences, feed racks and feed 
boxes provided for the pulp and grain were such as are used for 
this purpose by all feeders in Northern Colorado. 
The different rations to be fed were as follows: 
Lot I.—Alfalfa hay, beet pulp and ground corn. 
Lot II.—Alfalfa hay and ground corn. 
Lot III.—Alfalfa hay and beet pulp. 
Lot IV.—Alfalfa hay. 
The alfalfa hay was fed ad. libitum to the steers in each of the 
lots and was weighed in bulk as it was hauled to the corrals and 
placed in a small enclosure where it could be readily forked close 
to the feed rack, from which place, on the ground, it was eaten. 
This system of weighing the feed in large quantities accounts for 
the wide variation in amounts charged to the steers in the various 
week-periods of the experiment. 
The hay was much below the average of the best Northern 
Colorado alfalfa hay, as it was very coarse as a rule and had been 
much spoiled in curing. 
The pulp fed to Dots 1 and III was also fed ad. libitum and 
was placed fresh in the feed boxes or u bunks” twice each day. 
The corn was of good quality, and was rather coarsely ground 
in a local mill, being fed in limited quantities once each day just 
after noon. The amount of corn meal fed was very small at the 
beginning, but was gradually increased. Two pounds per head 
was given the first week, three pounds the second week, and four 
pounds during the third and fourth weeks. Five pounds was given 
during the fifth and sixth weeks, and eight pounds during the 
seventh and eighth weeks, after which the amount was increased 
gradually until the last two weeks of the experiment, when each 
steer on the average in the two lots received eleven pounds daily. 
The amount of corn meal for each week’s feeding was weighed out 
in advance, and approximately the same amount was fed each day, 
care being taken to see that all was fed out during the week, and 
as evenly apportioned as possible daily by measure. 
The steers in each lot were weighed on Saturday of each week, 
the weights being recorded as they were taken. 
