Show a RECORDS ON 80 CATTLE information collected will show some interesting comparisons comparison in making beef prepra Prep rd by the th united votes stale department de at agriculture Acri culture in order to compile dependable data on problems of beet beef production the united states department of 0 agriculture in the past four our years rears has taken records ou on about steers in various states of the corn belt when the work Is finished at the end of another year there will be records on approximately steers fed for the market in the territory covered indiana iowa missouri and nebraska most of the feeders art are finished on corn and legume hay or on corn and silage supplemented with a protein meal the kind of bay grown crown in it a particular locality usually determines the ration used and a survey shows that about equal numbers of steers are fed each year by these two methods where clover or alfalfa Is grown abundantly the standard ration Is corn and one of these hays hayg in other places where most of the hay bay Is mixed silage Is included in the ration and cottonseed or linseed meal Is fed as a supplement to supply protein the information collected during the four years shows some interesting comparisons of the two methods of making beef to make the same amount of total gain required less 00 ai jf A rd baby beeves on a corn belt farm time where corn find and alfalfa hay bay were used but required more grain than was needed in the corn silage cotton seed beed meal ration with the first ration the steers put on an average of pounds of gain a day while those getting silage and meal in addition to corn put on an average of in the first case it required days to put on the pounds and in the other days it should be remembered that these figures are based on the records taken on approximately steers a year for four years 0 the feed consumed by the average steer in these two groups Is given below corn C bushels alfalfa hay pounds straw pounds corn go 80 bushels cottonseed meal pounds mixed ilay hay aw pounds silage pounds straw pounds other of beef production are being studied in addition to fattening rations |