| Show university farm tests rations for baby beef about two hundred minnesota cattle raisers at university farm recently had bad an opportunity to see six lots of pure bred shorthorn steer calves ten calves to each lot which had been fed different rations for days they were also given the records in gains made by the various lots of calves farmers everywhere will be interested in the results of the experiments the rations fed were as follows lot 1 shelled corn CO 60 per cent whole oats 30 per cent linseed oil meal 10 per cent corn silage and clover hay lot 2 ground shelled corn 60 per cent ground oats 30 per cent linseed oil meal 10 per cent corn silage and clover hay lot 3 grain ration tor for the first halt half of the feeding period corn silage and clover hay bay lot 4 ground ear corn 90 per cent linseed oil meal 10 per cent corn silage and clover hay bay lot 5 ground shelled corn 68 66 23 2 3 per cent ground oats 33 13 1 3 per cent corn silage and clover hay no protein supplement lot G aground ground shelled corn ga W 23 2 3 per cent ground oats 33 13 1 3 per cent clover hay no silage and no protein supplement crediting at per hundred the gains on hogs which were kept in the lots with cattle the profits shown by the feeding experiment were lot 1 1892 per head lot 2 1597 lot 3 lot 4 1830 lot 5 1361 lot 6 1310 |
