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  • Three-year summary-level of winter supplementation for steer calves both winter and summer grazed on bluestem pastures.
    Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Koch, B.A.; Baker, F.H. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1957)
    The primary object of this test was to find the most desirable level of protein supplementation for wintering steer calves on dry bluestem pasture that are to be sold off summer grass as stocker or feeder yearlings.
  • The use of a pelleted ration for fattening beef heifers
    Baker, F.H.; Smith, E.F.; Richardson, D.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1957)
    An experiment previously conducted at this station demonstrated that beef heifers fed a completely pelleted ration made inferior gains, and had significantly lower carcass grades and dressing percentages than heifers fed ...
  • The use of antibiotics at shipping time to suppress the occurrence of respiratory complex in cattle.
    Boren, F.W.; Koch, B.A.; Smith, E.F.; Richardson, D.; Cox, R.F.; Smith, J. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959)
    One of the major problems confronting cattlemen is control of the occurrence of respiratory diseases such as shipping fever, colds, nasal congestion. and pneumonia. These respiratory conditions are especially troublesome ...
  • The use of brome grass in fattening yearling heifers as compared to fattening in a dry lot.
    Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Good, D.L.; Mackintosh, D.L. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1951)
    The purpose of this study is to develop a system of fattening heifers for feeders who do not have native pasture or have no pasture. The plan of production is to buy good quality heifer calves in the fall, winter them well ...
  • The use of live yeast suspensions in beef cattle rations.
    Baker, F.H.; Richardson, D.; Harris, J.O.; Cox, R.F.; Bowman, O.M. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1955)
    Forty head of choice-quality steer calves were used in the wintering phase of this test. These calves were part of a shipment from the Lonker Ranch, Medicine Lodge, Kan. The steers were assigned to lots on the basis of ...
  • The use of live-yeast suspension in beef cattle rations.
    Richardson, D.; Baker, F.H.; Harris, J.O.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Bowman, O.M. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1956)
    The rumen, or paunch, of cattle and sheep normally contains innumerable microorganisms. It has long been recognized that these microscopic organisms help break down complex carbohydrates such as fiber and help synthesize ...
  • The use of Stilbestrol and Synovex implants for steers during the wintering and fattening period.
    Koch, B.A.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Richardson, D.; Walker, G.L. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1958)
    The steers used in this study were implanted with either stilbestrol or Synovex at the start of the wintering period. The results of the first 112 days of the wintering period were reported in Circular 349. This report ...
  • The use of Stilbestrol and Synovex implants for steers on a wintering ration.
    Koch, B.A.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Richardson, D.; Walker, G.L. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1958)
    This is the third test designed to study the value of stilbestrol implants for steer calves being fed a wintering-type ration. Synovex implants are being used for the second time. Both products are being used successfully to ...
  • The value of ammoniated hydrol in beef cattle wintering rations.
    Richardson, D.; Baker, F.H.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1955)
    Twenty Hereford heifer calves were divided as equally as possible on the basis of size, weight, and type into two lots of 10 animals each. Atlas sorghum silage was used as the roughage and the amount fed was adjusted to ...
  • The value of ammoniated hydrol in beef cattle wintering rations.
    Richardson, D.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1956)
    Thirty Hereford heifer calves averaging about 400 pounds each were divided as ,equally as possible into three lots of 10 animals each. All lots received all the sorghum silage they would clean up each day. A mineral ...
  • The value of ammoniated molasses in beef cattle wintering rations
    Richardson, D.; Smith, E.F.; Baker, F.H.; Cox, R.F.; McReynolds, K.L. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1954)
    Forty head of good quality Hereford heifer calves were purchased from near Pueblo, Colo. They were divided as equally as possible into four lots of 10 heifers each. The starting ration for each lot is shown in Table 12. ...
  • The value of Stilbestrol implants for beef cattle
    Walker, G.L.; Smith, E.F.; Koch, B.A.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1957)
    Thirty choice-quality Hereford steer calves from the Williams Ranches near Lovington, N.M., were used in this test. These animals grazed together on dry bluestem pasture. They were separated for a brief period each ...
  • The value of stilbestrol in beef cattle rations, wintering phase.
    Richardson, D.; Baker, F.H.; Good, D.L.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1955)
    Forty Hereford steer calves averaging about 450 pounds were divided as equally as possible into four lots of 10 animals each. Two lots served as controls and the other two lots received 10 mg. of stilbestrol per head ...
  • The value of Stilbestrol in beef cattle rations-Wintering, grazing, and fattening phases.
    Richardson, D.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Baker, F.H. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1956)
    Stilbestrol, a synthetic compound which has a hormonelike effect when taken into the body, has been recognized as a growth-stimulating factor in beef cattle fattening rations. Most of the market cattle in Kansas are ...
  • The value of Stilbestrol in beef cattle rations.
    Richardson, D.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1956)
    Twenty-seven Hereford steer calves were divided as equally as possible into three lots of 9 animals each. One lot received stilbestrol at the rate of 6 milligrams per head daily for the first 56 days. The rate was ...
  • The value of Stilbestrol in the fattening ration of beef steers.
    Richardson, D.; Mackintosh, D.L.; Wheat, J.D.; Menzies, C.S.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1956)
    The addition of stilbestrol to a high-energy fattening ration has consistently demonstrated its ability to increase rate of gain with older or heavier feeder cattle. At the time this test was initiated, there was ...
  • The value of trace minerals in a fattening ration.
    Oltjen, R.R.; Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1958)
    This is the fourth in a series of experiments conducted to determine the value of trace minerals in a typical fattening ration. Three previous experiments, similar to this one, were reported in Kansas Agr. Exp. Sta. Cirs. ...
  • The value of trace minerals in a wintering and fattening ration. Self-feeding grain in dry lot vs. self-feeding grain on bluestem pasture.
    Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1952)
    This is a report of the wintering phase of this test. Following this phase the different lots will be grazed together on bluestem pasture and then full-fed grain until they grade choice. One objective of the test is to ...
  • Wheat pasture with various supplements for fattening lambs.
    Cox, R.F.; Erhart, A.B. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1950)
    Many uncertainties and notions are current concerning the use of wheat pasture for fattening lambs. In an effort to find definite information on some of these experiments on pasturing wheat have been conducted during seasons ...
  • Winter management for steer calves on a wintering, grazing, and fattening program.
    Smith, E.F.; Koch, B.A.; Cox, R.F.; Walker, G.L. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1956)
    Dry bluestem pasture has been used successfully several years at this station as a source of winter roughage for steer calves that are to be grazed during the summer and sold off grass as feeder or stocker yearlings. ...