| dc.description | Use of seeded pastures as supplements to native range and proper range management can do much to increase gains and increase returns per acre of land. In 1958, recent studies on the use of stilbestrol implants indicated that this might be a method of increasing gains on pasture. This article addresses a study was conducted at the Northern Great Plains Field Station in 1957 as part of the grazing experiments underway there to determine what effect stilbestrol implants on gains of yearling Hereford steers grazing native grass during the summer season. No feed supplements, other than salt, were provided
while the steers were on grass. Gains of steers implanted with stilbestrol were considerably higher than those of the steers not implanted, on both moderate and heavy grazed native pastures. However, gain differences due
to moderate grazing compared with
heavy grazing were much greater than those due to stilbestrol. | |
