Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-21
STOCK F[[uNG TESTS
The Experiment at Broohmont
Farm, Near Odeboit, Conclud.
ed and Results Published.
Prepared Stock Foods Did Not
Make a Very Good
Showing.
Gluten Foods. in Conjunction
With Corn, Produced Good
Results.

Results.
Ames. Aug. 21-The Iowa expert
ment station has prepared a bulletin
which will soon be ready for distribu-
ton. showing the results of the feeding
test conducted by the station on the
Brookmont farms at Odebolt. Iowa to
determine the value of continental
feeds (stocil foods). the byproducts of
corn. flax seed and cotton seed, and
/ cried blood when fed in conjunction
With corn; also as to the advisability
of changing cattle on a full grain ra-
ton from dry feed To grass. The en-
pcriinents were carefully conducted
end the results definitely set forth. The
results make a poor showing for the
/ experiment can not. of course, be taken
IS scientifically conclusive, yet so care
4 fully conducted a test carried over Il
period of ninety-four days can not be
4 without great value TO feeders gener-
/ ally
The result is best summarized in the
| following table. which gives the price
per bushe returned by each of the lots
of cattle for the corn consumed:
Lot corn alone ...............S .93
Lot III corn and oil meal. ....... IS
Lot ~ corn and gluten neal.... 1.o4
1.ov Y corn and gluten feed. 80. 1.o3
Lot VI corn and germ oil meal. .S2E
Lot VII corn and dried blood.... 90
Lot VIII corn and La. stock food. .92'2
Lot IN corn ana internation-
al stock food ................ ~
/ OF \ corn and standard stock
food Observation-Disclosures. '2ii2
Lot Nj corn and grass. -,
The experiment began with eleven
lots of twenty head each. Lot three
WAS fed on corn and cotton seed meal.
With wheat straw for rcughage. This
lot was feed al the beginning of the
test fifteen pounds of snapped corn and
one-eighth of q pound of cotton seed
meal After forty-two days feeding,
when the cattle We're eating twenty five
pounds of corn and cob meal and two
and one-half pounds OF cotton seed
meal a day. they We're very suddenly
the rest going blind and refusing to eat.
so that they had to be marketed. y
post morten examination showed the
stomachs of the animals to be Very
much inilamed and red and blue in
color The bulletin says:
Just why the animals fed on cotton
seed meal should have been So affected
we are unable to answer They We're
"A Ia 10
Of cotton seed meal per head per day.
h other experiments n tllls station as
high as five pounds per head per day
have been fed and other feeders have
fed as much as six and eight pounds OF
cotton seed meal per day without any
liz results 1t is a WE'LL known fact that
cotton seed meal when fed directly to
hogs often proves fatal. In this in
stance the hogs which followed the
steers We're not affected. 1t is possible
the trouble was due to the fact that we
We're feeding ii in connection with corn
and cob feal, which contained n large
percentage of cob and wheat straw for
roushage. We can say without any
hesitation that cotton seed meal can he I
fed with safety TO fattening cattle when /
clover hay and shelled corn are used in
conjunction With it,
Albert T.. Cook, proprietor of Brook
mont farm, turned over his entire facil- (
titles for the purpose of the experiment. !
Eleven feed lots or three different
farms We're chosen nearly an equal dis
tance from the stock yards where the .
weighings We're to be made.
From Mr.. Cooks 200 head of feeding I
cattle eleven lots of twenty each as T
uniform in size and conformation as
possible We're selected for the test.
Each lot contained one grade Hereford,
four grade Angus and fifteen grade
They We're assigned to
various yards and put on preliminary
feed for three Weeks before the regular
feed test WAS commenced. The cattle
We're gradually brought To a full feed
1t took over five weeks TO do this Each
lot received for roughage an unlimited
supply of wheat straw All of the food
used was charged TO each lot at the
market price and continental foods
We're charged at half-ton rates. thus
them considerably cheaper than
when purchased i'm l00-lb lots. The
test continued for ninety-four days
Lot eleven We're fed the same as lot
one until the grass season arrived and
then allowed the run of a twenty
acre pasture. The pasture WAS only
Fair, not nearly enough grass for good
The bulletin says THE return
made by this lot, While good, is not
nearly up to what we would expect had
We had a fortN-acre field of good blue
grass pasture, in which instance we
would not have fed over one half the Z
amount of grain we fed 10 these cattle" Z
in estimating the return per bushel
IF corn fed no allowance was made for
he labor invoked nor for the interest !
IN the investment. ON the other hand. {
10 credit was given for the manure fur /:
lished. Hogs ran With the cattle and j
heir gain in weight WAS credited 10 5
hem The hogs did not make Very good I;
Gains and ut the end of eight weeks I
lalf of them We're taken out. The re-
suits Indicate that where care and good /
Judgment are used in the preparation t
If food and the feeding of cattle there f
$ not much wasted. :
The average net profit per steer
howed quite a wide variation. \ ra-
ion of gluten meal. corn and wheat
traw returned net profit of $3.50 per {
teer more than a ration of Germ and /
.hna St, A of Ici,tt .,ln 4,