Show STEERS GAIN FAST WHILE ON PASTURE Has ga Many MApy Adva Advantages s Over Ove Overt 1 t Lot Dry-Lot Feeding Pasture for tor steers which are belli being fattened adds arMs to the profit obtained from them as against lot dry feeding it is Indicated ted in experiments carried canted on at the Oh Ohio o agricultural experiment station on In to 1928 Summarizing the results of the test Paul Gerlaugh of ot the animal husbandry husbandry husbandry hus hus- bandry department of the experiment station reports that steers ta fattened while on bluegrass pasture made more mor rapid gains much more efficient nt gains shrank ro more re to market soh for less money on the market dressed 1 per percent per cent less but returned more mor pont than steers fattened in a dry lotIn lotIn lot In hIn June nine Hereford Hel steers were turned Into bluegrass pasture and fe fed ground shelled corn cornand and linseed meal mea Similar steers were fed in n shed am and given gI a ration containing ground shelled corn linseed meal corn silage and mixed hay bay Both lots had beefed been bee fed from December to June on a ration ration ration ra ra- tion of corn silage linseed meal an and alfalfa hay tiny Their average daily dally gal gain during this p period was one and one one- half halt pounds From the start the pasture fed cai caitie cattie cat cat- tie made more rapid gains although their condition did not show It Eric Evid- Evidently Evidently Evid- Evid they were ere growing more than the lot dry cattle The cattle on pasture pasture pasture pas pas- ture were much slower in taking hoi hold of the grain r ration H However wever at th the end of ot sk six we weeks ks both lots were were- takIng taking taking tak tak- ing the same amount of ot ground shelle corn and thereafter the cattle on pasture pas ture lure consumed more corn than corn than the dry dry- lot cattle The results of th the test In Indicate strongly the advisability of full feed edIng ed- ed Ing log corn to cattle on pasture and feedIng feeding feed teed Ing long enough to obtain sufficient condition on the cattle to remove them entirely from grass cattle competition A short feeding period on pasture wilnot will wil not do this |