Show LIU e ehll STEERS GAIN FAST WHILE ON PASTURE has many advantages over dry lot feeding pasture for steers which ore are being fattened adds to the profit obtained from them ns as against dry lot feeding it Is indicated in experiments carried on at the ohio agricultural experiment station in 1028 summarizing the results of the test paul gerlaugh of the animal husbandry department of the experiment station reports that steers fattened while on bluegrass pasture made more rapid gains much more efficient gains shrank eli more to market sold for less money on the market dressed 1 per cent less but returned more than steers fattened in a dry lot in june nine hereford Ile reford steers were turned into bluegrass blue grasa pasture anti and fed ground shelled corn and linseed meal similar steers were fed in a shed and given a ration containing ground shelled corn linseed meal corn silage and mixed hay koth both lots had been fed from dember december to june on a ration of corn silage linseed meal and alfalfa ilay hay their average average dally gain during this period was wa s one and one half pounds prom from the start the pasture fed eattle cattle made more rapid gains alt although bough their condition did not show it evidently they were growing more than the dry lot rattle cattle the cattle on pasture were much slower in taking hot hold of the grain ration however lIo wever at the end of six weeks both lots were taking the same amount of ground shelled corn and thereafter the cattle on pasture consumed more corn than the dry lot cattle the results of the test indicate strongly the advisability of full feed ing corn to cattle on pasture and feeding long enough to obtain sufficient condition on the cattle to remove them entirely from grass cattle compe competition titio n A short feeding period on pastur will not do this |