Show Beef Steers Gain 3 lbs Ibs Per Day Dayt I Leigh Bros Conduct t Successful Feeding Experiment Alfalfa Pasture and Purina Chows prove Excellent Excel l lent Feed tion Dick and Webb Leigh have conducted conduct conduct- ed an experiment In feeding cattle this summer the outcome of which should prove very Interesting to local stock growers It has been the custom hereabouts to range cattle on the mountain during the summer and then feed during the fall and early winter to finish the product for the tha market The Leigh brothers havo shown that summer feeding can bo be bedone done successfully and thus place the finished steers on the early market Thursday night I they shipped a carload carload carload car car- load of old steers that had been fed during the summer and were wera In tn just as good condition as the average average average aver aver- age that are fed dur during ng the winter The steers have not been on the motu mountain moun- moun tain aln range at all but were brought from the desert In very poor condition i placed on on alfalfa pasture and fed Purina Chows a concentrated grain grata feed teed T Tl TJ ey fed at the tse beginning about three fourths of a pound per at steer er erper per day Increasing to two and three three- fortha at the end making an average avera of two pounds per day for a sixty day period and the steers made an average rain cain ot or three pounds per steer per day dar and were considered as almost finish finished finish ed v vIt ed stock It is figured that summer feeding with this concentrated feed on either alfalfa pasture or on the range would enable the stockmen to place their stock on the early market Instead of or waiting until after the long period ot of I winter feeding to finish them oft off j i 1 |