Show FEED FOR FATTENING STEERS Corn and Corn Silage With Cottonseed Cottonseed Cotton Cotton- seed aced Meal and Alfalfa Favored r at Iowa College That corn and corn silage supplemented supplemented supple supple- with cotton cottonseed ed meal alfalfa hay and suit salt mile Ke the best ration for fattening steers was shown to Iowa Iown farmers recently Steers fed tell this ration made substantial gains In experiments I at Iowa State college and aud although l they were wre ordinary steers they made 13 13 per head This indicates that the feeding business I properly handled and und where quality good steers are started with will pay pa- pathe the farmer farmeI a profit Other such as clover hay huy corn stover er and mixed timothy and antI clover lover hays were experimented with The red clover ration made mude n a good showing but the thC other lost mone money Cottonseed meal was used to an advantage In these experiments and made a tine line balancer for far the ration In speaking of the use of this Ills protein feed teed for steers the animal husbandry men say Bay that during dIning the last 12 years ears It has been used In experiments at atthe atthe atthe the rate of three pounds to 1000 pounds of ot steer I It was fed for a Q period of one to six months with corn silage e and good results were obtained Cot Cottonseed tons tons' ed meal however a us n a hog bog caused some doubt as to Its value due to toxic qualities but the Iowa station haS haS' that when fedIn fed fedIn In In ration where where cottonseed cottonseed 1 eai faud U fa used ud atthe n at the rate of 91 tone one j part art to four tour parts of ration no harm barm has las r resulted |