Show tests showed soybean valuable food soybean made a splendid showing lif in a cattle feeding test recently concluded at iowa state college six lots of steers were on feed and the greatest profit per steer 2251 was made by the lot fed linseed oll oil meal as a protein supplement soybean fed steers were second with an average net of 2223 next in line was was the lot fed a soybean oil meal cottonseed meal blond blend with a net of 1811 1810 A lot getting a medium feeding of whole boys made a profit of 1033 1633 A lot that had aheady a heavy feeding of soya made 1530 and a lot getting a light feeding made 1307 1347 the steers were fed shelled corn hand fed twice dally daily alfalfa hay corn silage and a simple mineral mixture in figuring prices corn cost 29 cents per bushel silage a ton alfalfa 10 16 a ton minerals 2 per hundredweight linseed 35 a ton cottonseed meal 28 soybean 20 29 whole wholes GO CO cents a bushel |