This year’s experiments included first, a series of wheat pasture tests, and later, various feedlot fattening tests. In the five lots of lambs on wheat pasture the effect of withholding salt, the value of additional roughage, ...

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. ...

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. ...

Twenty good-quality Hereford yearling steers were used in this test. They were purchased as steer calves in the fall of 1953 from the Joyce Ranch near Carlsbad, N.M. During the summer of 1953 the steers were used in ...

Thirty good quality Hereford heifer calves, 10 head to a lot, are being used in this study. They were delivered to Manhattan, Kansas, on September 15, 1952, at a cost of 29 cents per pound. They originated in the Sterling ...

Previous tests have shown that two or two and one-half pounds of grain daily will winter heifer calves well, which are to be full fed for an early market either after wintering or following wintering and grazing without ...

In this experiment two feeds were evaluated as possibilities for economically increasing gains on winter pasture. Molasses was self-fed to heifer calves in one pasture and compared with sorghum grain hand fed to heifer ...

This current test includes four lots of 10 steers each. The objective is to determine the value of dry bluestem grass as a winter feed for yearling steers. All pastures used for winter grazing had been used the previous ...

The primary purpose of this test is to determine if yearling steers can be satisfactorily wintered on dry bluestem pasture. Different protein supplements as well as methods of feeding them on dry bluestem pasture are being tested.

Twenty choice-quality Hereford heifer calves were used in the study. They were delivered to Manhattan, December 1, 1953, at $18 per cwt., from the Pueblo, Colo., area. The system of management for each lot follows: Lot ...