The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station conducted an experiment in which steers were fed corn silage and various kinds of hay, including sweet clover. The steers which were fed corn silage and sweet-clover hay made an average daily gain of 2.45 pounds, at a cost of $4.34 per hundred pounds of gain, whereas the steers which were fed corn silage and red-clover hay made an average daily gain of 2.29 pounds, at a cost of $4.55 per hundred. The steers that were fed corn silage and alfalfa hay made an average daily gain of 2.49 pounds, at a cost of $4.30 per hundred. In computing the cost of the gains, corn silage was valued at $3 per ton, alfalfa, red-clover, and sweet-clover hay at $10 per ton, and prairie hay at $6 per ton. The results of this experiment, as given in Table VII, show that sweet-clover hay is practically equal to red-clover and alfalfa and greatly superior to prairie hay for roughage for steers. Table VII.--Feeding experiments with steers in South Dakota, showing the value of sweet-clover hay as compared with some other kinds of hay. [Corn silage fed in all cases; kind of hay varies.] ------------+-------+--------+----------------+-------+---------------+------ | | |Average weight. | |Feed per pound | Cost | | +--------+-------+ | of gain. | per |Number | | At | |Average+-------+-------+ 100 | of |Duration| begin- | At | daily | | |pounds Roughage. |steers.|of test.| ning. | end. | gain. |Silage.| Hay. | of | | | | | | | | gain. ------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------ | | Days. | Pounds.|Pounds.|Pounds.|Pounds.|Pounds.| Red-clover | | | | | | | | hay | 4 | 91 | 775 | 983 | 2.29 | 25 | 1.5 | $4.55 | | | | | | | | Sweet- | | | | | | | | clover hay| 4 | 91 | 774 | 997 | 2.45 | 23 | 1.5 | 4.34 | | | | | | | | Alfalfa | 4 | 91 | 775 | 1,005 | 2.49 | 23 | 1.6 | 4.30 | | | | | | | | Prairie | 4 | 91 | 769 | 951 | 2.01 | 29 | 1.5 | 4.79 hay | | | | | | | | ------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------