The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-22
RESULTS OF TESTS
OF CATTLE FEEDING
State Cattle Feeders Associa-
ton Convened at La
fayette.

Lafayette April a2.--With President
J. p. Prigg. of Daleville. presiding.
the annual spring meeting of the In
diana Cattle Feeders association was
held yesterday at Purdue university,
three hundred feeders and breeders
of live stock being present.
The meeting was held primarily for
the purpose of allowing the members
of the association opportunity to study
the results of this seasons cattle feed
ing tests at the Purdue experiment
station, the steers that were placed on
feed November 10. 1910, having been
finished for the market after $50 days
feeding on different rations. Values
We're placed on these cattle by leading
commission men from Chicago and In
dianapolis and the results OF the feed
ing experiments announced The
session was the most interesting evere
held by the association and attracted
the largest crowd. the visitors com
ing not only from Indiana points, but
from Illinois and Ohio as we'll.
The results of the cattle feeding OK
periments were made known at the
morning session of the convention,
held in the big live stock pavilion at
the Purdue farm. The cattle that
have been fed during the winter were
| divided into seven lots and fed as fol
| lows
| Lot No. 1-Shelled corn. cotton seed
meal, 21a pounds to each 1000 pounds
live weight, corn silage at night and
! clover hay in the morning.
Lot No. 2-Shelled corn, cotton seed
meal. 2Apounds to the 1000 pounds
live weight and clover hay.
Lot No. 3-Shelled corn, cotton seed
meal, 21a pounds 1000 pounds live
weight and corn silage.
| Lot No. 4-Shelled corn. cotton seed
meal, 21a pounds 1000 pounds live
weight, corn silage twice a day and
clover hay once day.
| Lot No. 5-Shelled corn, cotton seeG
meal. "a pounds to each 1000 pound:
live weight. corn silage at night, clov
er hay in the morning
| Lot No. 6-Shelled corn, cotton seeC
meal. 11a pounds cotton seed meal &
1000 pounds live weight and clover
hay.
Lot No. Corn silage and clover
hay for sixty days and for ninety day:
the same feed as lot No. 4.
Results Of Experiments.
The report of results of the feeding
experiments, as read by F. G. King
Secretary-treaS urer Of the association
showed that lot No. 1 was the bes
gaining lot and lot No. 3 showed the
cheapest gains. The most profitabl,
ration, however, was that fed to 10
No. 4. The feeding experiment las
season showed this same result, thu
ration No. 4 proving the best! Anoth
er test will be made next winter, ant
if it shows the came results that thu
two tests already made have shown
the superiority of this ration will b.
definitely established
The cattle were all divided equal,
as to number, weight breed. qualit.
and flesh. Commission placed the val
ue on the cattle at the beginning o
the test, in November 1880, and to
day a committee of commission men
composed of J. T. Alexander and Lu
Their Conover, of Chicago, and Allel
Beeler. of Indianapolis, put the valua
ton on the steers.
After an inspection of the stock
the cattle feeders returned to the pa
Wilton, where President Prigg mad,
his annual address. He reviewed tn.