| Show VELVET BEANS GOOD FOR MARKET STEERS compare favorably with cottonseed meal for fattening results given of experiments conducted at government farm mora moro profitable to feed soaked bean beans than tan to 0 grind rind them prepared by the united state states department ot of agriculture corn silage pillage and beans are said to torro form n i satisfactory ration for fattening steers for market this Is iq I q the result of feeding just completed ut the lie united states depart merit of agriculture tann farm at beltsville md other points brought out by the tests indicate that velvet civet beans compare favorably with cottonseed meat producing profitable gains when the beans are the sole concentrate of the ration that it 1 in more profitable to feed winked inked beins be ins than it 11 Is to grind them and that more bean beans nill all be eaten it soaked before they are fed led than if they arc are fed dry the objects of the experiment were mere to compare velvet beans in three forms whole hole ground and soaked cak edwith ith cottonseed towi teed meal as supplements to corn tillage and dry roughage hages and to determine the most forms in which rebel beana beans might be fed in fattening cattle for market incidentally it was hopt d that the testa tests mould elaw possibilities of grain n conservation the production of beef as a wartime arti e measure the cattle used in the tests were 40 good two year old Fit in ili which short horn blood predominated they were last february in the ea ant tt bt louis market they wen re elected out of shipments from illness Ill nels anti missouri aud were vere in fair I 1 condition when placed en on the experimental feeding rations ration they w re divided into four lota lots of ten ton apers each lie the lots lot selected so that they I 1 would be ne as nearly equal as possible in weight quality and condition tiie the inere were fed days the daily ration by lot I 1 was 4 V Im Ausla of cotton leej tar na 52 ft of for corn alln am und of dry roI lot ot made an average dlly tally mm of ZM roamiel at of a oot ct C t of alet li I 1 emu a fund f und or 1197 a bun bundra arl itt I 1 t t II 11 consumed nn an average dal dally ay ration of 7 pounds of dry whole alvet beans be 2085 pounds of torn silage and 4 15 pounds of dry rough this lot made nn an average dull pain gain of pound a head at a cost of about 14 cents a pound or 14 12 a hundred lot III ate bealh day an average ot of 5 ST 87 pounds of i chat eh et bean m al 2002 20 or pounds of corn silage and 4 10 pound ot of dry roughage the nn nials made nn oil average dally gain of pound po unIs nt at a cost of about 14 cents a pound or 1404 14 04 a hundred lot IV consumed nn an average dilly d illy ration of oga 0 V pounds of soiled whole hole velvet beans 2340 pounds of corn corti silage and 3 72 2 pounds of dry rough age this lot rondo made nn an average dally daily gain of 1 W pounds n head at a cost of about 13 cents a pound or 1310 13 19 a hundred the dry roughage was aas the same for nil all lots and consisted of corn stover for the first 28 day period and wheat straw for the last three 28 day periods the feeds were at current standard prices und anti the charge against each kind included the actual cost of laying tt it down don at the farm the examination if it hp the enica ties in to tho cooler at baltimore showed tint thit lot I 1 and IV were nearly alike as to city however flo wever meat experts there were of the opinion that if it any difference rolsted it mas max in favor of the i carcasses in lot IV lot 11 II was mug better than lot because of the greater covering of fat the average dressed weights according to the baltimore bais gave the following fol loning of dressed d to live weights eight lot 1 I N 10 lot 11 II 6 SIX lot III 1514 01 lot IV r f 77 the steers were sold on the Y farm nt at 2 cents a pound more thau they cost in last bt st loul louir |
