Show steer feed experiment gives beneficial data experimental steer feeding was conducted during the winter ot of 1024 1025 at the caldwell substation of the idaho agricultural experiment station fifty two year old hereford and shorthorn steers purchased in bwy bee county last november were used in this experiment this group of steers was wag divided into five lots of 0 ten each and fed the following rations for a hundred day period lot I 1 long lione al alfalfa acfalle falle hay and c corn orn lot 2 alfalfa meal and corn lot a 3 chopped alfalfa hay and corn i lot 4 long alfalfa hay corn silage and corn lot 6 5 long alfalfa hay and barley shelled ground corn was used in the first four lots and ground barley in tile the fifth lot the feeding period being over on starch 27 the steers were shipped on date and sold on the portland market march 30 the average shrinkage was 48 pounds per head marketing expenses amounted to 75 cents per hundredweight the prices received and the dressing percentages for each lot were as aa follows lots lota 2 and 4 topped the market at per cwt cat each of these lots lota dressed out per cent lots lota 1 I and 8 each brou brought 1876 per cwt cat the dressing per cent of these lots lota was 99 per lent cent lot 6 sold at 1860 per cwt cat and dressed out at ea 6 per cent in the coolers the carcasses graded na as follo follows ws 20 22 choice cli olce 20 good 1 medium and 1 poor |