Show 9 T TEST N S T FOOD 0 D VALUES exa experiment bent AT KANSAS AGRI COLLEGE LEGE f falts learned Lc arned are of much value to cattle dalsas warming fj the drinking water Is absolutely N cc casary in successful Fe feeding in the latter tart of Od october cober the kansas experiment stati station Oll put into the feed lots head of cives calves that had just becil bean weal weaned led they were divided into lots to test the values of alfalfa hay prairie aa hay corn corn andson and aay beans in tho the production of baby be beef f sixty licad head of heffers heifers hei fers were pur chasec chafee in the kansas city stock aads v weighed an aie average racO of pounds each cost por per hundredweight at the yards and co cost st an ail av orage crage of 1825 poc per head delivered in tiro college collee feed lots lot these were latigo calves calce grado grade shorthorn hereford and ang angus I 1 ls fifty head were war purchased of farmers near manhat tan tali and had been lb jupt with their dams through lugh the summer slimmer iu in small pastures twenty hwal hodul wore ware mixed ard calves that had been pur purchased chUsed around manhattan when born and hail had been raised by the college by hand ton ten being raJ raised Eed on creamery skim mill milk and ten on whole e milk the calvey everz vaccinated vaccina ted to prevent blackleg without tills thia safeguard wo would not have dared to under taka lakia this expert experiment the calves ware foil cod soven seven months AI the close odthe of the exly experiment bri may 4 17 7 the entire lot averaged gounah ver nor head in tho colle college collee e feed lyts the in shipping to lisas ansas city was vase 3 peri percent celiL thirty awo steers aver averaged agod Li pounds liounis and sold old at per 1100 pounds s seventy alenty four heifers heffers averaged pounds pound s and sold old for lind huuk eighteen 0 heifers heffers 18 averaged vera ged pou pounds nils and sold for 15 six head of letters went 11 aa the packing company which aughtery augh the calves made the fol lowing report V 32 12 steer ateer calves lt lave ve weight ve fight Y pounds dressed weight pounds W i T tallow 52 pounds dressed weight 1 per cent tallow CI percent per cent apt lpt 74 helfer heifer calves live weight 41 1 1 f jl f pounds dressed weight pounds v tallow 49 pou rids dressed weight we ight l s r cent tallow 63 per cent 1 18 heifer calves live weight 7 41 pounds dressed weight pounds rai rov 49 pounds dressed weight IA 46 CG per cont cent ce nt tal tallow loNy 66 per pee cent ay iy the calves nvere fell fed twice daily 1 l edg inn frig at I 1 7 a in m ruid antl at 4 ag 1 pm in me i he lots red fed in the came same order sach eadi timo time and exactly at the same time thue each day the hours of feeding wore were arranged so that the calves did all ail ther the work of 0 eating in daylight U each ach lot was given at each feeding all y the grain i ain and roughage it would eat up clean within three hours after i feeding eding Ce in each lot the grain was ced mixed with the roughage alid the c roughage was fed fedl whole fine barrel salt alt was kept in boxes boxe 11 under tinder tho the needs where thea the calves had free ac ft ests at an all times rac lotof calves ads vas sheltered cd with a common board 1 difed closed on the north hurth pon open 0 to the south water ani m 17 supplied in tanka reg rag by float valves so that the tanks wore vore kept full and the calves 1 s could drink at from december 2 to april I 1 a tank neater heator was kept going coln in each tank and the water was kept hept at a temperature of about fifty de degrees this sho average cons ump tion of pounds of coal dally per t tank with coal at 11 per ton ten this would make the daily cost of warm 1 y la tank a aman fraction u I 1 P io ii s raf rt ej A neut mi y to water for forty head apparently as an 1 cheaply as for forgive five or ten head we found the previous winter that it r required a no more labor to keep a tank heater running than it did to keep the ice out ol of a tank not heated we would urge every feeder to use a tank heater A successful feeder of long experience recently made tho the statement that talat gains in feeding follow very closely the amount of water drank by thes fattening animal the larger the quantity of water drank the gloater gr oater jhc thc gains provided there is no unnatural stimulation to drinking ln with clean palatable aile water free from froin ice hopt where the animal cart call drink at will the animal drinks often and each twenty four hours coti consumes a large quantity but at no timo time is the stomach overloaded or unduly chilled The Thel cost of using a tank licater heater is trifling and the returns are nr good the remarkable feature of x pal pediment peri ment was the small amount oy ol grain required to make pounds 0 o gain the skim milk calves fed alfalfa hay and corn averaged loo pounds of gain for only pounds ot of corn coen and this in seven eleven months feeding an fn the other lots fed alfalfa and corn required pounds or of corn corm for I 1 pounds of galu gain I 1 |