FEEDING STEERS BEET PULP, ALFALFA AND GRAINS. 7 
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS. 
In the accompanying table is given the detailed data of the 
weight of steers, the amount of the different feeds consumed and 
the gains made by each lot in one and five week periods, and for 
the entire period of twenty-five weeks. 
A study of the contents of this table and the sum¬ 
mary as given in Table III, reveals some interesting features. 
It will be observed that after the first seven weeks of feeding, 
there was a marked falling off in the amount of pulp consumed 
by the steers in Lots I and II that were receiving grain, and that 
this decrease continued until the close of the experiment, while 
the steers in Lot III, that received no grain, continued to eat ap¬ 
proximately the same amount of pulp throughout the experiment, 
until the last four weeks, when they also ate perceptibly less. The 
steers in each of the lots ate about the same amount of pulp for 
the first seven weeks of the experiment. This may be accounted 
for from the fact that the amount of grain received daily by each 
steer was so small at the beginning of the experiment that it had 
no appreciable effect upon the appetite for the other feeds. The 
steers in Lots I and II received two pounds of grain per day each, 
for the first two weeks, after which time this quantity was in¬ 
creased at the rate of one-half pound per week until they were re¬ 
ceiving on an average six pounds each daily. This continued 
until the 13th week of the experiment, when they were fed seven 
pounds each daily for one week until the 2 2d week, when they 
had eight pounds, and from that time until the close of the experi¬ 
ment they had ten pounds each daily. 
It is interesting to note in the case of Lots I and II receiving 
grain, that while the amount of pulp consumed daily diminished 
with an increase in the grain ration, the average daily consump¬ 
tion of hay remained fairly constant throughout the experiment, 
while there was a constant increase in the amount of hay con¬ 
sumed by Lot III that received no grain. It seems hardly cred¬ 
ible that the steers in Lot III should consume approximately 60 
per cent more of hay in the last five weeks of the experiment 
than they did in the first five weeks. Another striking feature 
of this table will be noted in the fact that while the amount of 
grain fed daily to the steers in Lots I and II was increased from 
week to week, there was no constant or corresponding increase in 
the rate of gain. Contrary to what might have been expected, 
there was not any appreciable increase in the rate of gain in Lots 
I and II with an increase in the amount of grain fed. While the 
average rate of gain increased somewhat after the first five-week 
period, when more grain was fed, yet it cannot be attributed to the 
increase in amount of grain fed, since the steers in Lot III that re- 
