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Am. Soc. Anim. Prod. 1927:216-218
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Preliminary Report of Steer Feeding Trials

W. L. Blizzard

Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

  1. Lot 1, receiving a standard ration of shelled corn, cottonseed meal, darso silage, and alfalfa hay, made an average daily gain of 3.07 lbs., the largest of any of the lots.
  2. The steers in Lot 1 were more highly finished. However, the steers in Lot 3 fed on cottonseed meal and silage, showed practically as much finish.
  3. The total feed cost in Lot 3 was $12.23 less than the feed cost in Lot 1. Therefore, it was not necessary for the steers in Lot 3 to bring as much per hundred as those in Lot 1.
  4. The steers in Lot 3 made an average daily gain of 2.6 lbs. per day which is a remarkable gain on cottonseed meal and silage.
  5. The steers in Lot 3 showed less cost per cwt. gain and a larger daily gain per steer than those in Lot 2 receiving cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls.
  6. The steers in Lot 4, receiving cottonseed meal and kafir hay made only 1.18 lbs. daily gain per head and the cost per 100 lbs. gain was about 21/2 times greater for these steers than for those in Lot 3 receiving cottonseed meal and silage.
  7. Cottonseed meal used as a concentrate as fed in Lot 2 did not prove equal to the standard concentrate as used in Lot 1.
  8. Silage proved superior to cottonseed hulls as a sole roughage.
  9. Cottonseed hulls proved superior to kafir hay when cottonseed meal was used as a concentrate and full-fed.
  10. Av. yield of silage 6 tons per acre. On this basis, 1 acre of darso converted into silage and fed to the steers in Lot 3, together with 1211 lbs. of cottonseed meal, produced 757 lbs. of beef.
  11. Av. yield of kafir hay 2 tons per acre. On this basis, 1 acre of kafir hay fed to the steers in Lot 4, together with 926 lbs. of cottonseed meal, produced 263 pounds of beef.






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