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Show L1VBSTOCK SOME CONCLUSIONS OF FEEDING FEED-ING EXPERIMENTS AT THE UTAH EXPERIMENT STATION. 1. Sugar beets and beet pulp for dairy cows -arc nearly equal in value. 2. Sugax beets and beet pulp had a value of from 90 cents to $1.00 per ton. 3. Milk from beet and pUlp'-fcd cows was a triflo higher in butter fat, the increased percentage being very small. 4. Milk flow and dairy yield of butter but-ter fat were maintained as well without with-out beets and pulp as with them. 5. In feeding 1000-pound steers all the alfalfa and beet pulp they would bake, larger and more economical gains were -secured by adding 4 pounds grain to the ration per steer per day. 6. In a ration of alfalfa and pulp with steers, limiting the pulp one-fourth one-fourth to one-half with all the alfalfa that they would take, increased the gains and reduced the cost of .production. .produc-tion. 7. In a ration of alfalfa; and pulp with steers, limiting the alfalfa one-half, one-half, with all the pulp thait they would take, increased the cost of production and decreased the gains. 8. In feeding 80-pound wether lambs ciill the alfalfa and pulp they would take, 1 pound of grain added to 4he ration per lamb per day, increased in-creased the gain and also the cost of production. 9. One-half pound of grain per lamb per day compared with 1 .pound of grain gave lower gains and aJso lower cost of production. 10. One-half pound of grain per lamb per dayj with all the alfalfa and pulp that the animal would take, compared com-pared with no grain, increased the cost of production but not the gain. 11. In a ration of alfalfa and pulp with lamibs, limiting the pulp one-fourth one-fourth to one-half with all the alfalfa that they would like, increased the gain and decreased the cost of production. pro-duction. 12. In a ration of alfalfa and pulp with lambs, limiting the alfalfa one-half, one-half, with all the pulp that they would take increased the gains vand decreased! decreas-ed! the' cost of production. 4v 13. In feeding a ration of alflalfa and beet pulp to sheep and steer better results were secured in every instance when cither the alfalfa or the pulp was limited. Larger gains and cheaper production were secured when the pulp rather than the alfalfa was limited. 14. Sugar beets fed to steers with alfalfa and 4 pounds grain per head per day, had a value of $2.36 per ton. 15. Sugar beets fed to eight months old lambs, with alfalfa, and 5 pounds grain per head per day, had an average aver-age value of $3.41 per ton. 16. Beet molasses fed to pigs, with green alfalfa, skim milk and shorts, had a value of $1.12 per hundred. 17. Beet molasses fed to pigs, with shorts and beet pulp, Jiad a value of 84 cents per hundred. 18. By substituting 1.1 pounds mo- I lasses for 1 pound shorts with pigs I fed shorts and on alfalfa pasture, the consumption of the latter was increased, in-creased, the daily gain .per pig increased in-creased from1 .5 pound to .72 pound and the cost of production per hundred hun-dred reduced from $4.99 to $3.18. By further adding 6 pounds skim milk per pig per day to the ration, the daily gain was increased to 1.13 pounds, and the cost of production per hundred reduced to $2.78. 19. For swine, sugar beets had an average value of $3.52 and pulp $2.57 per ton. 20. A's high as 20 pounds of pulp was fed to horses per animal per day without any apparent injury. In a ration of alfalfa hay and oats 9 pounds of well fermented solid pulp saved 1.5 pounds oats. 21. Pulp fed to sheep did not produce pro-duce a weak bone. 22. In feeding dairy cows a basal ration of 4 pounds of grain ( shorts, bran) and twelve pounds hay, 13 pounds good alfalfa hay fed along with it was nearly equal in value to 11 pounds of grain. Thirteen poundte of alfalfa,' fed in connection with the basal ration, produced .6 pound of milk and .08 pound of butter fat per cow per day less than did 11 pounds grain when so fed, but the co3t of 100 pounds of milk was reduced 30 cents and of butter fat 5,7 cents. 23. In feedfirtg alfalfa to cows, milk and butter fat were produced cheappr on 4 pounds of grain per coy per day than on 8 pounds. The daily yield of 'milk and fat was increased by the larger amount of grain, .95 ! -and .07 pound, respectively. The milk flow was maintained better on the larger than on the smaller amount of grain. 24. Apples fed to pigs in two x-' x-' pcruncnts with skim milk and shorts had a value from nothing to 18 cents per hundred. In one experiment apples ap-ples were only equal to grass pas-' pas-' turc. 25. As grazers, pure-bred Tam-w'orth Tam-w'orth swine were most 'superior. ' Berkshire, Poland China and Tam-worth Tam-worth grades were about equal. Purebred Pure-bred Yorkshires were not equal to the other breeds in feeding qualities, especially es-pecially as grazers. ' 26. The average cost of spring litters lit-ters of six pigs each, including the cost of the keep of the sow for one u f year, when disposed of at a weight If of 893 pounds, was $29.42. The aver- Ill age cost of fall litters of -seven pigs t each, including the cost of the keep of the sow for one year when disposed dis-posed of at a weight of 1,088 pounds, was $36.90. The cost per hundred for spring pigs from weaning to a weight of 150 pounds was 2.70, and of fall pigs fed through the winter to a weight of 135 pounds, was $2.77. 27. The average cost of raising cat-tic cat-tic to one year of age was $19.00 per head, and to two years of age, at which time they averaged 1037 pounds in weight, was $3&97 28. Sheep can be kept on irrigated farms at a good profit when hay sells for $5.00 per ton, grain $16.00 per ton, and wool and mutton at 20 and. 4 cents per pound respectively. At these prices there was greater profit in pasturing the land with sheep than in raising alfalfa and selling it. |
