Show a 1 savo SILAGE FOR BABY BEEF FEED FAILS not profitable where yield of corn Is low corn silage Is not a profitable feed for fattening baby beet beef calves under northwestern minnesota conditions according the trials conducted at the northwest experiment station of the university of minnesota at crookston the reason given Is the low yield ot of corn silage obtainable in the northern part of the state for it has been demonstrated that silage feeding Is profitable in the corn belt where yields are normally high calves fed a ration of ground barley linseed oil meal and alfalfa hay made greater dally daily gains as well as cheaper gains and nere ere valued nt at 15 cents per hundredweight higher than calves fed the same ration plus corn silage the feeding was days lasting from november 27 to june 11 all of the calves were purchased at the same price the mar margin in per head over feed cost for the calves fed silage was 2237 while for those fed the same ration without silage it was 2771 in these same trials but with different lots of calves it was learned that ground barley alone Is more efficient than a mixture of ground barley and ground oats it was also shown that feeding ground oats during the first half of the fattening period and ground barley the last half Is not as satisfactory as feeding ground barley throughout hout it was concluded that the advisability of adding ground oats to a ration of ground barley linseed oil meal alfalfa hay bay and corn silage would depend upon the relative prices of oats oata and barley at the values used in this trial 38 cents for oats and 52 cents for barley the addition of oats did not prove profitable |