| Show Beans Beans' Bans Food Value Cut by Grinding b Tests Show Far Better Re Re- suits When They rhey Are Fed Whole With fee feeding in value equa equal to cottonseed cottonseed cottonseed cot cot- meal or oil meal threshed soy beans benns may be used as a protein supplement in the steer ration with excellent results says sn's I. I L. L P. P McCann extension specialist In animal husbandry tins hus bandry for Cor- forthe Corthe the Ohio State sity In feeding threshed soy beans some farmers are Inclined to doubt that their full usefulness can be gained without grinding them now However How flow ever the tests show that the feed value of the be bean m Is lowered by grinding All protein supplements are best fed to cattle at the tte rate of between one and two pounds per head dally dnny the exact amount depending depending dependIng de de- pending on whether a legume hay Is fed Its amount and the kinds of grains groins use used in the ration mUon Corn silage can also be used In lowering costs of gr grains he assert assert- ed Tests show that steers put on gains at third one-third lower feed costs when fed on a II silage ration than they tuey do when receiving a shelled corn hay and cottonseed meal ra ra- tion On the basis of returns per acre corn grown and fed to cattle the silage route made a return to GOSO per acre when It was fed fedas fedas fedas as shelled corn The profit per steer In the silage-fed silage lot was more than double the profit per steer In Inthe Inthe inthe the shelled corn lot |
