The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-01

cotton seed meal, two pounds bran and twelve pounds corn with hay and hulls. Two lots, Lots and 1, of five steers each. one lot in stable and the other outside. were fed on cotton seed meal. from siT pounds to eight pounds, and hulls. thirty pounds. each per day; while Lot 5. consisting of typical poor feeder Ca Jersey grade steer and dairy Shorthorn grade steer). was stall fed on the mixed ration, In or der that the three might be compared separately and individually with the steers in Lot 1,
 The ninety-six days the experiment lasted were divided into three nearly equal periods. at the and of each of which the steers were weighed, so that the relative gains made In the begin ming. middle. or end of the experi- mental period might be compared.
 The feeds used were of good quality, and cost as follows: Cotton seed hulls, $425 per ton; cotton seed meal, $20.50 per ton; hay (Johnson grass, or John son grass and alfalfa). $9.00; corn meal (store meaD, $24.00; and bran, $20.0e.
 The lots receiving cotton seed meal and hulls had their ration divided equally between two feeds-i. e.. from thirteen to fifteen pounds of hulls and from three to four pounds of meal at each feed. Those receiving the mixed ration were given hulls in the morn ing and hay at night. curing the first period three pounds cotton seed meal was fed with the bulls, and two pounds of each of corn meal and bran with the hay. In the second period, two pounds each of cotton seed meal and bran was fed with the hulls. and five pounds corn meal with the hay. In the third period, the corn meal fed at night was incr used daily up to ten pounds, and two pounds corn meal fA1 t.4 l.n tnnx vnrtfh fxtfD pounds each of cotton seed meal and bran, making a total of twelve pounds corn meal per day"
 As soon as possible after the close of the experiment. the cattle were shipped to St. Louis and sold to Swift and Company. Although 1t meant a loss of about ten pounds per head, the cattle were weighed separately on the stock yard scales, in order that the per cent of dressed meat per steer could be given when the carcasses were weighed The buyers decided that all the cattle, but four, were of the same value per pound, irrespective of the foods -stuffs fed to them. or the conditions under which they were fed, The results O. the experiment may be briefly stated as follows:
 Cotton seed meal and hulls produced the cheapest gains. Stall fed steers made the greatest gains on less feed than those fed out doors. although in | fine weather the outside steers gained l faster In February the steers fed in | lots gained only about one pound per | day: in March, about three pounds per day Lot 1 made an average gain of 2.09 pounds per day per steer, at q cost of S.5 cents per pound. Lot
 gained 1.93 pounds per day; cost. 6.l cents per pound, Lot gained 20s5
 pounds per day; cost, 9.13 cents per pound. Lot , gained l.52 pounds per | day: cost. S9 cents per pound. The typical poor feeder ULot 3), made a gain of l.32 pounds per day at 1923 cents per pound; the Jersey, .97 pounds per day at 12.7S cents; and the dairy Shorthorn grade, 1.77 pounds at 765 cents per pounds
 The total profits on the transaction were about $50. Had these steers been put on fed at the cost of raising (two cents per pound). the profits would have been over $500. which shows what a farmer might make if he raised his | own feeders. The value of the manure
 no small item. estimated at about SS0 1 is not included in the financial state ment, but Is merely assumed to cover | the cost of labor and waste feed
 To quote from the last pag,s Of the
 bulletin: Dairy farming has many
 points of superiority over beef raising
 but to farmers who are not close tc
 3 good market and are handicapped
 by lack of available and steady labor
 the breeding and feeding of beef cat ] tie will ofrer many inducements.