The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
FARMERAND PLANTER.
FEEDING EXPERIMENTS.
rhe Texas Experiment station Gives
the Results OF TIVE Seasons
o. Steer Feeding.

The Texas agricultural experiment
station has now in press and about
ready for distribution Bulletin No 7t,
prepared by John !. Craig and T. r.
Marshall. of the department ct animal
husbandry, on Experiments III Steer
Feeding, Among the results OF two
seasons, work with is head of steers
are the following:
Rice bran added to q ration Of cot
tonseed meal and huIIs in TWO out Of
three trials gave an increased rate OF
gain at a lower cost.
Rice polish added to q ration OF
cottonsced meal and bulls slightly in
creased the rate Ct gain at the same
cost.
Rice bulls were not satisfactory as
a substitute for cottonseed halls. as the
steers did not relish them.
lice huIls fed with cottoRseed meal,
rice bran and molasses We're nnsatifac-
tory, as the steers could not be t.
duced To eatsa fair ration.
Sorghum hay IN ration of cotton
seed meal and rice bran gave equal re-
suits il gaiR to cottonseed bulls, as
enc pound Of the former gave results
equal to 102 pounds Of cottonseed
hnIls The daily rate of gain per head
was Slightly in favor of the hu1ls, be-
ing 298 pounds, as again vt 2.35 pounds
il the instance of the sorghum.
Cow-pea hay was not found as sat
isfactorv as cottonseed huils il a "a
ton of rice bran and eottonseed meal,
as the daily rate Of gain per head was
9 SO pounds in the instance of the lot
receiying hulls, and % pounds in the
| trial with coW-pea hay. a pound Of
eow-pea hay was equaled by 81 pounds
of bulls.
Peanut hay was very unsatisfactory
| fed with rice bran and cottonseed
meal, owing to the fact that it was
| very nutritive food, being too similar
| to 5cottonseed meal in composition TO
mix we'll with it.
| Alfalfa hay was a very unsatisfac-
| tory addition TO the rice bran and cot
| tonseed meal ration, for the reason
| that It is also rich in those constitu-
ents which are abundant 10 cotton
seed meal, making the ration too nitro
genous.
| Cottonsetld meal and hulls make the
most generally fed ration in the cot
| ton BELT. while corn and alfalfa hay
are considered the best combination
/ in the eern belt. ) comparison Of
these rat1ons becomes interesting from
these facts The steers receiving the
4 ir
ate daily per head ST pounds Of cot
tonseed meal and 90 pounds OF hul1s,
and gained 81 pounds. With the cot
tonseed meal at $40 a ton and the
hulls at 81 a ton the feed cost OF one
pound Of gain was four and sfx-tenths
cents. The steers receiving alfalfa and
/ cora-an-cob meal ate daily per head
eleven ponndsof coTn-and-cob meal and
/ 16.9 pounds of alfalfa, and gained 2.553
pounds With the eorrl-and-cob meal
1T 10 cents d busheI. and the alfalfa
at s. a ton, the feed cost Of one pound
Of Gain was four and ole-tenth cents.
1t will be seen from this that the
/ cost of fattening steers under the very
best circumstances for securing the
most economical rations is very SIM
liar.
Molesses added to ration consist
ing Of cottonseed meal and hulls re-
suited in a greater and cheaper gain
from those steers receiving it, as they
! gained 3.1f pounds per head daily,
while those not receiving it gained 2.59
pounds.
Tearling= steers in comparison with
two-gear-old steers on rations of cot
| tonseed meal and hulls made about
| the same gain at a little cheaper cost.
/ The tWo-year-oId steers gained 2.59
/ pounds per head daily, and the year
lings a.21 pounds.
IN feeding steers on pasture it was
| found that a corn and cottonseed ra-
| ton gave better returns than corn
alone. The substitution Of 3,075
/ pounds OF eottonseed meal for 3,438
/ pounds OF corn gave an increased gain
Of Ssl pounds on the lot of 10 head.