Show fattening dairy steers Is profitable business the dairyman who has a ai number of bull calves on hand that cannot be disposed of for or breeding purposes purpose often wonders what todo with them when they beT have bare reached one year of age can they be castrated cast rated de horned and I 1 fattened for the market marke marketan tat at that age by the breeders bleeders bre eders themselves or caw can they her be sold fold to men who abeln in the tha feeding business to answer the ohio station conducted a feeding test with six holstein Holst eln buu calves months of age when they weighed an average of pounds per head bead the bult calves were debor de horned nied and castrated cast rated in december 1921 1 and on january IT 17 1922 at the weight mentioned were put on teed feed ai a i ration of ground corni corn on meal mixed hay and corn stover being fed during a period or of days thy they consumed an average of 14 pound ground corn 25 pounds OR oil meal 44 pounds mixed hay and 22 pounds corn stover on this they made a daily gain of pounds per head bead at a cost coat ot of 1016 per pounds gain during the same period a lot of 0 angus calves averaging pounds per head were fed the same feeds they consumed about two pounds corn meal two pounds hay bay and one pound stover less per head bead thin than the dairy steers and gained 38 36 ot of a pound less per be head ad per day the dairy steers in other words proved to lye be the heaviest eaters and also madea slightly bargert gain per pound po undo of feed consumed the dairy steers produced pounds of gain at a cost of 1018 1016 and the angus steers ata alia cost of 1034 the dairy steers were put in the teed feed lot at a valuation of per pounds and the beef steers at a value of 7 per hundred Imn dred the former sold on the market for and the latter for a hundred the profit on the dairy steers was 1083 per head and on the beef steers this test so far as one this sort cart can prove anything showed conclusively clu that dairy steers can be fed out at a good profit by the feeder when he buys them at the right price and also that they make excellent use of their teed feed |