Show CATTLE RATIONS FOR MAKING FAST GAINS shelled corn alfalfa and cottonseed meal favored by the nebraska station shelled corn alfalfa hay and cottonseed meal gave the fastest gains and greatest profit of any of the six rations fed in the recent cattle feeding experiment at the nebraska Ke braska agri agrical cul tural experiment station at lincoln the other rations fed the different in the experiment were shelled corn and alfalfa ground corn and al alta falfa shelled corn alfalfa and silage shelled corn alfalfa silage the first four weeks and karklo molasses feed the last 14 weeks and shelled corn alfalfa and cottonseed meal the last six weeks the 60 head of two year old steers used in the experiment were bought and were sold at prices ranging from to or at a net profit of over 1100 the cattle were fed in an open lot and under conditions similar to those found on the av raie corn belt farm fam |