Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-12-04
FEEDING EXPERIMENTS
CONDUCTED AT A. & M.
Valuable information for Cattle Rails
ers as to Best Balanced Ratlons
for Feeding.

That the ration of cottonseed
meal and silage is far more profitable
| than either ration of cottonsed meal
and hulls or ration of cottonseed
meal, hulls and silage, in fattening
| steers, has been thoroughly demon.
strated by experiments conducted at
the feeding and breeding sub.station
Of the State Experiment station at
the A. and NJ. College. The results of
the experiment conducted with these
rations and also the results of an ex-
pertinent conducted for determining
the relative values of sorghum hay
and cottonseed bulls for fattening
cattle are contained in bulletin
which has just been issued by the Ex-
pertinent station authorities.
The feeding experiments were con-
Quoted by Prof. John G. Burns, pro-
lessor of animal husbandry at the
College and animal husbandman for
the Experiment station. These expe-
riments constitute the first work of
an experimental nature that has been
completed on the feeding and breed.
ing station, which Is now in thesec.
ond year. Breeding as well as feed.
ing experiments are now in progress
at the station, and B. Youngblood, d.
rector of stations is expecting this
work to become perhaps the most i'm.
portant of any one phase OF the sta.
ton activities. There are 617 acres
now utilized for this station and ST.
lage for feeding experiments is raised
at the station. While the work fun
damentally is experimental, never
theless Mr.. Youngblood has succeed
ed in so managing the herds that
nice profit has been realized off of
each steer.
The full detail of these experiments
may be had by inquiring for Bulletin
No. 159 from the Director of Expert.
ment stations, College Station. Texas.
Well graded Shorthorn and Here
ford steers. twenty-eight in number.
fairly uniform, were bought from the
range and divided into four herds of
seven each Their cost, including
freight. etc, amounts to s42.24 head
and as they averaged S53 pounds
their cost per pound was s4.95 at the
beginning of the experiment.
The experiment covered aperiod of
1S9 days. from October 10th to March
4th, 1913. Lot / was placed on IA.
ton of cottonseed meal. and bulls: lot
2, cottonseed meal and slage: lot 3.
cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls and
silage, and lot 4, cottonseed and sill
age The first lot was fed two pounds
cottonseed meal and 20 pounds cotton
seed hulls; lot 2 two pounds cotton
seed meal and "a pounds OF silage;
lot 3, two pounds cottonseed meal 10
pounds cottonseed hulls and ~ pounds
/ silage. After a few DAYS the hulls
and silage were rapidly increased. as
much being given as was consumed.
When the steers were loaded for
| shipment to Fort Worth. March 4th,
4 lot I average 1927 pounds; lot 2,
1856 pounds: lot 3, 1891 pounds and
lot 4. 1140 pounds. Arriving at Fort
Worth the following shrinkage had
occurred Lot 1. III pounds: lot Q.
/ 1906 pounds lot 3. 1873 pounds, and
lot 4. 107 Wounds. The steers brought
I s7."7 o. Tho market. sold to Armour
/ g. CO. In the dresc'ng teet. the steers
O. Let 2 ran slightly higher than the
othn-s. dressing 500 per cent.
Put II war tho rn~,ng NJ cost Of Feed
that lot landed the l'r2ckout blow
CT 'Ne other ratcrs. Tho cost Of
! rcodin~ during tho experiment per
--oe- fo~ lot We e"t43: fer lot 2.
-" %: for lct .. eo1.<2. a profit Of
! ccO.Ot per steer was realized off lot ?,