Show LIVE L cb or oaf 40 1 SILAGE TO THE BEEF CATTLE results result given of careful tests made with corn at missouri station excellent finisher the missouri experiment station baa has recently published the results of 0 some aoma careful tests at 0 corn carn silage as teed feed lot for beet beef cattle it was found that a ton of silage was approximately equal to one half ton of clover hay when fed in connection with shelled corn and linseed oil meal or with shelled corn and clover hay or with shelled corn linseed at oil meal and clover hay bay estimated on the basis of net profit per steer a ton of dry matter in the tha form of 0 corn tillage silage yielded 50 3 per cent greater value than a ton of dry matter in the form of 0 shock corn A ration in which silage and clover hlay hay were used was much more profitable than a ration in abich silage constituted the only roughage one of the most conspicuous features of the test was the notable superiority perio perlo rity of the ration in which lin seed oil all meal was used and those la in charge ot of the debts concluded that it Is desirable to feed some high protein concentrate in the ration it if the most acal extensive use la Is to be made of mra corn silage in fattening cattle the results indicate that fattening cattle which receive corn silage as ag tha only roughage do not continue to do well tor for longer than about ninety days A superior finish Is obtained on fattening cattle which are marketed in the spring when silage composes A part ol of the ration the lot of steers which received a ration of 0 shelled corn linseed oil meal corn silage and clover hay made the tha t X excellent beef type greatest grei teat gains in live weight produced the most economical gains were the best finished and yielded fielded the greatest profit |