Show Find Silage Profitable as Feed for Baby Beeves eves Recent feeding tests with baby haby beeves at the Minnesota experiment station show that silage can b be profItably profitably prof prof- used in fattening b baby b beeves In T th the tests which were were conducted u hv hr W W. H. H Peters and N. N K Carnes Games calves calve petting getting silage plus a full fee feed of grain fed more regularly reg and required less skillful and careful feeding than calves getting a heavy feed of grain and no silage The silage-fed silage calves J gained pounds per head hend per day as an average of a da day feeding period while the calv calves es fed without silage gained at the rate of 22 pounds per head per day Although the calves fed without slings silage were valued at 10 cents per hundred pounds above those which had silage the silage fed calves showed a net profit profit- of 1790 per head whIle those without silage made a profit of 1015 1615 IGUS per head bead In another test barley proved equal to corn pound for pound In making gains on fattening calves However because of the greater cost of the barley and the smaller saving of feed made by hogs following the fed corn calves showed a profit of 1615 per head bead while the profit on those fed barIe barley was but per head bead Pure bred beef calves high-grade high beef beet calves and common calves showIng show show- showing ing some traces of b beef ef breeding made similar gains on similar amounts of ot feed The difference In selling price was as marked however the pure bringing per head the grades and the common calves only per head |