Show Cheaper Diet Raises Profit From Cattle Ls ss gains in weight but greater profits resulted from feeding a herat herd her of at cattle In a a velvet b an field compared compared com corn pared with wih another herd fed In a a. a simia sim ohm lIar ilar ia field Celd for anI only a a. short time and then theu given sen more costly costy feed teed including sorghum sor sor- hum s-hum silage and cottonseed meal These I. I two feeding feeding- t tests were conducted on private farms arms in Florida in operation co-operation co with the tho bureau of or animal industry United States State department of at ture In one case case- native steers 2 to i 5 years ears old and average GS pounds per head hea were vero turned Into an eighty-acre eighty field of at velvet beans early In Novem bel ber After fer twenty eight twenty days das the tho animals animals ani ani- mals averaged o 90 pounds and the tho feed aas 13 changed to sorghum silage velvet beans In pod and nd cottonseed meal On tho the sixth fifty da day the weight was pounds On the tho pounds fourth eighty day when the tho test ended it was 61 pounds The average dai daily gain per head was ap approximately ap- ap proximately three fourths of a a pound Tho ration was wa not the tho typical fattening fatten fatten- ing inS ration used heretofore but was due une otic used to secure a comparable degree of or finish Ha Had grain g been fed ted in addition probably bl a a. greeter greater groter gain ln would have hove been secured Thero was ivan a 2 margin and a a profit of or per head In the second experiment native steers similar to tho the first herd 16 were pastured on an acre five field of at velvet beans for tor two seventy days das be beginning beginning be- be ginning at It about tho the santo mo time of ot year car They lost considerable In weight for a part of ot the second month but there was wasa wasa a a dal daily average averno gain for tor the whole period pe period pe- pe nod of ot a little more than one-fourth one pound per steer The pasture charge o in this case caso was 9 0 per acre and the profit 65 65 per head The Tho margin was 2 as In the other ether case caso I |