| Show when silage runs low steers thrive on hay many a former fanner with a silo kilo tins hits been confronted by the question of whether to sell his steers too early tie because vause bla hl supply of silage was dwindling or to try arid and shift them to a legume hay in the middle or toward the last of the feeding period thit cattle can be started on a full feed of silage corn cotto cottonseed need meal and straw and satisfactorily fi ollied after a legume hay bay lias hus replaced the and straw and part of the cottonseed meat meal Is indicated in brinis trinis conducted at the kentucky experiment station atlon tt for three years to 1000 pound rennes ee steers were fed for to days boy bay being given to gnp lot from 30 to 60 00 days at tile the close of the period for two years the lots finished on legume hay bay were fatter send valued higher by the buyers 1 and for two years made tile the largest gains while for each of the three years the liny hay lot made larger dally gains atter after the hay was added to tile the ration than did the steers continuing on of silage these larger gnant were more inore expensive however lw cause of the relatively high price charged for the hav S af per ton on und and therefore the all red fed cattle returned a larger profit by per head tor for tile the three years although Al the meal was reducer reduced when a legume hay was added to keep the protein supplied the two luta lots equal the hay boy fed steers made one half pound larger dally daily gning 2 54 pounds as compared to pound per day for the ull all fed lot |
