Show Ground ground round Barley Is Equal to Corn Com for Steer Feed Ground barley proved almost equal to o corn when fed with alfalfa hay to tWO old year old old steers at the Idaho station sta sta- tion in experiments last year The Steers were fed all the alfalfa hay they I would eat and w were re given about ten pounds Bounds of grain per head each day Both grain grains were fed ted ground Both Doth lots gained about 18 pounds per head bend I f dally and required a little more than 1300 1200 pounds of ot hay for each bundred bun bun- dred pounds of ot gain The Time steers fed ted barley consumed pounds for every pounds of gain and the corn fed corn led steers teera ate 52 pounds of ot grain for tor each hundredweight of ot gain Both lots lotsof of f steers brought th the same price when old sold Another lot of ot steers were fed about 0 fl pounds of ot alfalfa hay 14 pounds of corn com silage and 9 D pounds of ot ground barley as a dally daily ration Gains were about a dollar per hundred pounds through the use of ot the silage The steers gained 21 21 pounds dally daily For every pounds pound of gain they repaired required re re- paired poun pounds of ot hay bay pounds of It silage and pounds of barley |